Cancer has affected a large number of populations in this world and death has been increasing day by day around the world due to lung cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer and breast cancer. Medical science has discovered many effective techniques to get cured all types of cancers, but the most advance technique is still to be discovered. Death from prostate cancer has suddenly increased in the USA and UK due to late diagnosis and lack of proper treatment.
Some facts about Prostate Cancer Treatment
When cell division occurs abnormally in prostate gland it forms a tumor. The tumors could be benign or malignant, malignant tumor is dangerous and has symptoms of cancer disease whereas a benign tumor doesn’t show any cancerous properties. The malignant tumors can affect the adjacent organ too in later stage.
The cancerous tumor is removed by using various healing techniques which have been described as below.
Surgery
Surgery is one of the effective procedures which allows removal of prostate gland to stop the division of malignant cells. The surgery is accomplished alone or combination with chemotherapy or radiation method.
Radiation techniques
A high energetic beam is used on specific area where cancerous cells form a large mass. It uses two kinds of methods, one is external beam therapy and another is internal bema therapy. These two types of radiation techniques are used according to the stage, location and grade of melanoma tumor. Side effects also occur after the radiation therapy like frequent urination, painful urination, pain while passing stool and weakness. In some cases, erectile dysfunction may also occur.
Brachytherapy
It is a kind of radiation technique in which many rice-sized radioactive seeds are placed in a prostate gland and kill the malignant tissues and cells. One of the benefits of using radioactive seed is that it helps to deliver fewer doses of radiation beams. Doctor implants these radioactive seeds in the prostate gland through a needle sized ultrasound images. The implanted radioactive seeds ultimately prevent giving off radiation and are not removed.
Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy is a successful Prostate Cancer Treatment which is used to stop the male hormone called as testosterone. The cancer cells usually rely on testosterone hormones which help them to grow, so cutting off the supply of male hormones in a prostate gland help to die the cancer cells gradually.
Proton therapy
It is one of the most new techniques which has been successful for the Prostate Cancer Treatment. In this procedure, the proton particles are delivered through the linear accelerator machine in a very precised way to kill the malignant cells and tissues. The method doesn’t affect any adjacent or healthy tissues and thus produces fewer side effects after the treatment.
Summary
Prostate cancer is treated using effective conventional and new healing techniques. After diagnosis from the prostate cancer, a patient must consult oncologists who can recommend the best healing technique to treat this melanoma disease.
