Prostate Cancer Treatment
If you or someone you love is diagnoised with prostate cancer, you may be wondering how prostate cancer is treated. There are numerous methods of treatment for prostate cancer and there is no "one" method that is the best. Your doctor will take into consideration your health factors and offer either one method or a combination of multiple methods of treatment. The methods of treating prostate cancer can range from prostatectomy, where the prostate is removed, to hormone therapy, chemotherapy, or radiation. There are also recent technological developments that prove hopeful for prostate cancer. One such example is High-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU, which directs high intensity ultrasound waves to heat the prostate cells to death.
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