Treatment Options for Prostate Cancer

Before choosing a treatment option, it is important for a patient to discuss their options with their physician based on his individual case. Upon diagnosis with prostate cancer, a man has the following primary treatment options:

• Surgery
• Radiation Therapy
• Watchful Waiting
• Other treatments (hormonal and cryosurgery)
• Treating Cancer Recurrence

In this section, you can:

• Discover which treatment options are available to you (above).
• Find out if da Vinci Surgery may be the right choice for you: “Should I Consider da Vinci Surgery?”
• See how the efficacy and safety of robotic surgery compares to other treatment approaches.

Surgeons Discuss Surgery vs. Radiation