Treatment - Active Surveillance


Once you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, your doctor will recommend several treatment options for your according to your unique situation. However, this recommendation may vary depending of what type of doctor you are seeing. With prostate cancer, there are three types of specialist - a radiation oncologist, a medical oncologist and a urologist. You may seek a second or third opinion form all of these specialists to get an all round picture of your options.

Prostate Cancer Treatment (1)

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Active Surveillance

Increasingly, patients are adopting a 'wait and see' method rather than going on immediate treatment for prostate cancer. This applies for men with other disorder such as diabetes or high blood pressure that weakened their body, making it hard for them to tolerate the taxing effects of prostate cancer treatments.

Patient is monitored for cancer growth progress through PSA blood test and DRE test every six month and a biopsy every year. Once cancer growth is detected, treatments will be recommended. This method is usually adopted by people with very slow growing cancer or early stage cancer but are not currently fit to withstand treatments.

Prostate Cancer Treatment (2)

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