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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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The treatment of choice for many prostate cancer patients is hormonal therapy to remove serum testosterone.
Prostate cancer seems to be more aggressive in younger patients, and life expectancy of the patient is often considered in determining the treatment approach.
The hormonal treatments for prostate cancer are also associated with bone loss.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Prostate cancer is known to be androgen sensitive and responds to treatment that counteracts the effect of androgen and/or removes the source of androgen.
PSA recurrence after definitive treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer.
Treatments for prostate enlargement (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH) and prostate cancer continue to be refined.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Radical perineal prostatectomy and radiation therapy are appropriate treatments for prostate cancer that is likely to be contained within the prostate and adjacent tissues.
While there is no effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer, localized disease can be treated with either prostatectomy or radiation therapy.
Ragde, please give us some background on the use of radiation in the treatment of prostate cancer through to your current application of prostate brachytherapy.
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