Advanced stage prostate cancer - your options

Advanced stage prostate cancer - your options

In the early stages, prostate cancer can often be treated very successfully. However, if it moves to expand the surrounding bone, and then a cure is no longer possible, and the treatment can only prolong and improve quality of life. There are still options though, even here, even if it is not a cure for prostate cancer possible.As progresses, symptoms such as painful urination, irregular flow of urine and even blood in the urine, in some rare cases start become apparent. These can be caused by many things, and does not mean someone has prostate cancer, but should still be checked by a doctor or GP.

 If left untreated, the cancer can spread to the surrounding bone while un-curable. In prostate cancer is often a slow process and can take up to fifteen years. Because of this, many men with prostate cancer die of different causes before being killed by cancer.In the late stages of prostate cancer, the patient may show the following symptoms: • Weight loss • Fatigue • Cancer PainsProstate also cause symptoms such as difficulty achieving an erection, painful ejaculation, although this does not necessarily mean that the cancer is in its later stages.  

Prostate cancer is the second most likely cause of cancer-related death in the UK, although successful treatments have become increasingly common in the last twenty years. This is demonstrated by the fact that survival rates have increased almost 40% between 1975 and 2001 (according to the NHS). Prostate cancer later stages are more common among men over 50 Art