Prostate cancer is a dreadful disease. Most of the time, a patient die not because of acquiring the disease, but because of the painful symptoms itself. Since the cancer cells are contaminating other parts of the body, it causes certain complications especially to the reproductive organs or the bones.
Prostate cancer does not have concrete symptoms, so it might be too late when the doctors discover it unless the person developing the cancer cells have regular routine check-up. Due to the advances in technology and inventions in the medical field, experts were able to device processes and operations to aid and sure prostate cancer.
The extent, intensity, and range of the treatment greatly depend, or even dependent on the stage of the cancer. To name a few processes undertaken for prostate cancer patient includes active surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy which is categorized as brachytherapy or radiation therapy using external beam, HIFU or high intensity focus ultrasound, chemotherapy using chemotherapeutic drugs, positron emission process, or hormonal and cryosurgery.
The doctor could also combine one or two processes based on the range and level of the cancer cells contamination. Aside from the medical approaches done to at least lessen the suffering of a prostate cancer patient, experts take into consideration the state of the person’s health, his age, and his ability to balance and manage the side effects.
As part of the patient’s treatment discussion, doctors and psychologists prefer to focus the discussion to the effects of the medical treatment towards him as a person including poor sexual ability and urinary problems. At the same time, psychologists make the patient understand of the effects of the medical treatment to their lifestyle and they might resort to building their own environment and drive people away from them.
The most difficult part of the treatment is on the process of healing the patient’s personal outlook towards the disease and towards the situation, although at some point this things should be subjective towards the person’s behavior. A nomogram is required for those patients whose cancer cells go beyond the prostate. It is a process of predicting the spreading probability.
It is a complex process since the cancer cells is predicted to affect other body parts and might result to two or more complications. Active surveillance, HIFU, and other medical treatments are applied if by any means the cancer cells stay within the prostate. This simply means that the treatments will be subjected to the prostate gland alone.
Other treatments involve hormonal and chemotherapy which are reserved for treatment beyond the prostate glands as well. Normally, hormonal therapy is being applied on the onset of the tumor cells while another therapy that uses radiation is applied for more advanced tumors. As the cancer spreads and progresses, cryotherapy or the ability to freeze the cancer cells using laser treatment, and chemotherapy are applied.
It is not easy having a prostate cancer. The patient should be prepared physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically for the treatment. At the same time, the treatment are expensive to cost a fortune.
