Treament of prostate cancer

The main treatment options for prostate cancer are surgery(usually a procedure called a radical prostatectomy),radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, and various combinations of all three.
Radical prostatectomies and radiation therapy are considered curative therapies, meaning that they may be capable of destroying the cancer altogether.Hormonal therapy is palliative; it can reduce the symptoms of the disease and slow its growth, but hormone therapy doesn't wipe it out.
Nontreatment is also an option-a very important one for many men. Because of their slow growth, some small, early stage prostate cancers may not require treatment, especially if they're in men who are older or who have other serious illnesses. Other prostate cancers may be so far advanced that any treatment other than pain management may be useless and even cause suffering.
Once you've been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you will need to make decisions on what treatment is best for you. The kind of treatment you receive should depend on the stage of your disease, your age, and your overall condition. You should keep in maid that there's uncertainty, even within the medicall profession, about which treatments are most appropriate for various forms of prostate cancer.
If you find all this uncertainty disturbing, remember that it's generating a lot of work by researchers to both causes and treatment of prostate cancer and their findings may ultimately benefit you.