Several effective treatments for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a tumor disease that poses a serious threat to men's health. If it is not treated in time, it will endanger the patient's life. What are the common methods for treating prostate cancer ? Here are some common methods for treating prostate cancer.

In general, common treatments for prostate cancer include:

1. Radical prostatectomy is one of the common methods for treating prostate cancer. It is mainly suitable for patients whose prostate cancer is confined to the prostate, but those who have not invaded the seminal vesicles and lymph nodes can achieve long-term survival after radical surgery. In the past, transperineal prostatectomy was commonly used, but in recent years, retropubic radical prostatectomy has been widely used. Complications of prostate cancer surgery include: impotence, complete urinary incontinence, stress urinary incontinence, and vertical injury. Urethral bladder anastomosis stenosis also has complications such as incision infection, thromboembolism, and lymphedema. The surgical mortality rate of radical prostatectomy is 1% to 5%. The most widely used surgery at present is "nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy".

2. Radiotherapy, external irradiation 80% to 90%, A and B stage prostate cancer can be controlled, failure is often due to metastasis, 10% is due to ineffective local irradiation, 25% to 30% has both distant metastasis and local ineffectiveness. 70% of those who received radiotherapy were within 24 months. The 5-year tumor-free survival rate was as high as 80% in stage B and 56% in stage C. Statistics show that patients with tumors invading the rectum, bladder, pelvic wall, and ureter have survived for more than 3 years without cancer. Radiotherapy for prostate cancer can relieve metastatic bone pain.

3. Endocrine therapy. The normal metabolic function of prostate cells depends on androgens, which are converted into dihydrotestosterone in the prostate. 90% of testosterone is produced from the testicles. In the blood circulation, 57% of testosterone is bound to sex steroid binding globulin, 40% is bound to albumin, and only 3% is free functional testosterone, which enters the prostate cytoplasm and becomes dihydrotestosterone. It then binds to receptors to form a complex and enters the cell nucleus, binding to the DNA in nuclear chromatin; the activated DNA produces mRNA, which becomes the code for prostate cell proteins, which is extremely important for its metabolism. The cells in the prostate have different reliance on androgens, and most cancer cells rely on androgens. Endocrine therapy can directly remove androgens to inhibit their growth. This is also a common method for treating prostate cancer.

The above is an introduction to the common methods of treating prostate cancer. I hope it will be helpful to everyone. Patients should choose the method of treating prostate cancer that suits them according to their actual condition and should not choose blindly.