prostate cancer treatment side effects

prostate cancer treatment side effects

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3 new treatment options for prostate cancer

The deportation of the most common treatments for prostate cancer are surgery of the entire prostate, radiotherapy and hormone therapy.

All this is very effective, however, can often lead to serious side effects that may degrade quality of life, making it difficult to get erections and causing loss of urinary control at night. Fortunately, there are some new treatments in works that promise.

One of them is a vaccine against the actual cancer called Provenge, which showed an increase in time survival of men with prostate cancer compared to placebo in controlled studies.

The company does, Dendreon, has requested approval FDA, although the FDA has accepted that seems to be a safe and effective, which have been very slow in approving the request of other clinical trials.

The drug is designed to teach the immune system of the body how to find and fight cancer cells without damaging normal cells and so far seems to do exactly that. If and when approved Provenge could be an excellent treatment for all patients with prostate cancer.

Another treatment works is called gene therapy of Ad5-TRAIL, which is an influenza virus in human wide (called an adenovirus) that carries the genes for the processing area of prostate cancer.

Until Ad5-TRAIL has shown promising But researchers who work there say it is currently too early to draw conclusions about its effectiveness. He is currently in phase I clinical trials, and is a little far from the market, but genetic manipulation is a promising treatment for the future of all prostate cancers, including.

The new treatment, the third in the works is a form of cryosurgery familiarly called "Male lumpectomy" but officially called Coordination of cryosurgery. Cryosurgery has been around for a while, and consists of the surgeon injecting argon cold in the destruction of glands prostate cells. He always had a better recovery rate from surgery involving the cutting, and too few side effects.

The new center version coordination of cryotherapy adds new accurately even less chance of side effects like impotence and incontinence.

The procedure was successfully treated 95% of people with prostate cancer in tests, and 80% without running impotence or incontinence, a blessing for those who are faced with prostate cancer. The patient treatment, so patients do not have to face an extended stay hospital, however, is usually only addresses the early stages of prostate cancer, and destroy a small tumor confined to the prostate.

This treatment is currently being achieved in some places outside of research centers, including Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.

Although the current treatment of prostate cancer is effective and many diseases are treated in time and treated successfully, there is room for improvement, due to serious side effects erectile dysfunction and problems of bladder control that is so common. Fortunately, some of these therapies and promising new hope for patients with prostate cancer.

About the Author

James Culp is a prostate cancer survivor and runs ProstAide.org, a blog that keeps track of all the latest prostate cancer treatment options available.

What can we expect from radiotherapy?

In November, we learned that my husband has cancer of the prostate, has been chosen to have of radiation therapy IMRT, which will be 41 sessions, apart from what doctors have told us, what can we expect from side effects. Doctors are so vague, they say that everyone is different, I think I would know what I expect. Thank you to all who can help me ..

No radiation occurs in the human body. The radiation is based on an oxide of toxic element "Radio", a severe poison for the body human. Radiation kills all cells indiscriminately. This process literally burns and cooks the meat. In the outcome of prostate cancer or side effects can be severe damage in the rectum at all.

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