Radical prostatectomy removes the prostate, which contains the tumor, and some of the tissue around the gland. Often before performing the prostatectomy, your doctor will do surgery to take out lymph nodes in the pelvis to see if they contain cancer. This is called a pelvic lymph node dissection. If the lymph nodes contain cancer, your doctor usually will not do a prostatectomy. Instead, other therapy may be advised.
Cryosurgery kills the cancer by freezing it.
This procedure is considered experi-mental at present. Radiation may be delivered to the prostate by a machine or by putting radioactive seeds inside the prostate where cancer cells are found. If your prostate cancer is early stage, your doctor may recommend brachytheraphy or radioactive seed implants. Hormone Therapy is used to stop the cancer from growing. Hormones are most often used when the cancer has spread outside the prostate.