M.D. The subject of prostate cancer is fraught with controversy. Patients need certain milestones in order to determine best treatment options. Personally I believe that the data is most important.
Data allows men and their families to compare different treatment options and their outcome.
This way there is more satisfaction and less likely regrets. When chances of success are known beforehand, all are more satisfied regardless of the outcome. Of course, choosing based upon the best results of previously treated similar patients is always instructive. Nearly all options exist at our facility. Although the general approach developed at Staten Island University Hospital's Department of Radiation Oncology is using radiation seeds plus body radiosurgery for those with confined prostate cancer - not spread to distant sites.