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homeTable of ContentsMedical Words
Understanding Your Prostate
What Your Test Results Mean
Treatment Choices
Intro
Watchful Wating
Surgery
Radiation
Comparing Treatment Choices
Comparing Side Effects
Newer Treatments
Things to Ask Your Doctor
After Your Treatment
Education and Support Groups
A Choice and A Journey
 
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Treatment Choices : Surgery

How this treatment can help

  • If the tumor has not spread, and the surgeon gets all of the cancer out, a man can be free of prostate cancer for the rest of his life.

To see pictures of how surgery works,
please see page 4.


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“As I thought about having active treatment, I realized there was good news and bad news. The good news was that the cancer might be completely gone. The bad news was that I might suffer serious side effects.”