Treatment Options for Prostate Cancer

Before choosing a treatment option, it is important for a patient to discuss their options with their physician based on his individual case. Upon diagnosis with prostate cancer, a man has the following primary treatment options:

• Remove the cancerous prostate (surgery)
• Radiate the cancerous prostate (external beam or radioactive seed implants)
• Watchful Waiting
• Other treatments (hormonal and cryosurgery)

In this section, you can:

• Discover which treatment options are available to you (above).
• Find out if da Vinci Surgery may be the right choice for you: “Should I Consider da Vinci Surgery?”
• See how the efficacy and safety of robotic surgery compares to other treatment approaches.