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If you are a younger patient with a long life expectancy your doctor may suggest more radical treatment to try to cure you of the cancer.
If the cancer is still in the prostate and has not spread, you may be offered...
Surgery
A radical prostatectomy is a major operation to take out the whole of the prostate gland. It usually involves a hospital stay of four or five days. This operation can sometime be done laproscopically.
Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy uses radiation to kill cancer cells. It can be given from inside or outside the body.
Radiotherapy given from outside the body is called external beam radiotherapy. For prostate cancer, radiotherapy is usually divided into treatments given every day, Monday-Friday, over 7-8 weeks.
Another treatment option is prostate brachytherapy. This is a type of internal radiotherapy where tiny radioactive seeds are put inside the prostate. You have a general or spinal anaesthetic, and stay in hospital overnight. This treatment is suitable only for men with small cancers.
