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Understanding Your Prostate
What Your Test Results Mean
Treatment Choices
Things to Ask Your Doctor
After Your Treatment
Intro
If Your Cancer Returns
A Place To Record Your Test Results
Education and Support Groups
A Choice and A Journey
 
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After Your Treatment : If Your Cancer Returns

What we have not talked about
so far: LATER stage prostate cancer

Some men (about 17 out of 100) will have cancer that has spread beyond the prostate when they first see the doctor. In some cases the cancer may come back after surgery or radiation. These are all considered later stage cancers.

  • Later stage prostate cancer is not confined to the prostate.
  • It is cancer that has spread beyond the prostate.
  • It is cancer that is not so easy to cure, but may be curable.
  • The aim of treatment is to control certain symptoms such as pain and trouble passing your urine.
  • Treatments are systemic. That means they must flow through or affect your whole system. You may need them if cancer has spread to other parts of your body.

If you develop later stage prostate cancer, your medical team will talk with you about treatments for that stage of cancer.


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