prostrate treatment options-- a new hope for patients

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



With each decade, the statistics of prostate cancer steadily increases. This is due to the awareness and exposure, screening procedures, new protocols and campaigns which aims to pre-detect this cancer in order that prostate treatment be made as soon as possible.
Prostate cancer is a slow progressive malignancy. Various symptoms like urinary obstruction and urine abnormalities may start to occur late in the course of the disease. Metastasis is a possibility and spread to the pelvis and other parts would cause tremendous bone pain.
Diagnosis would be based on the elevation of the prostate enzyme along with a positive finding on manual digital rectal exam. Radioimmunoassay methods also serve to give added information regarding the stage of the cancer. Likewise, radiographic imaging and bone scan would prove helpful in the diagnosis.
Hormone treatment for prostate cancer include those which are not acquiescent to radiation treatment. These are the well differentiated carcinomas, extensive local disease or metastasis. Sometimes, orchiectomy or irradiation are also done after initiating hormonal treatment. This kind of prostate treatment makes use of oral estrogen in short or long term duration and can provide relief for prolonged periods of time. However though, there are thromboembolic complications that goes with type of control. Other forms like decreasing testosterone levels are also used to alleviate the disease.
Radiation treatment for prostate cancer specifically radical retropubic prostatectomy is done when the cancer is localized. This would provide palliation of pain when bony metastasis is present. This may also prove to be sufficient in controlling local tissue spread within the cancer. Although there are various prostate treatments in this modern age, specific target pathology should always be considered.
New prostate cancer treatment modalities like the inhibition of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) by certain drugs would prove to be a benefit. Various enzymes undergo certain procedures which conquers PSA and thus giving a new light and another advancement in prostate cancer treatments.
Prostate cancer treatment options are very important in the management of prostate cancer. To live each day with a disease is not equivalent to living life, that is why there are alternatives for us to choose and these various regimens will in turn change the way we live.


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