Your radiation oncologist can answer further questions on radiation therapy, including brachytherapy. Radioactive iodine and palladium are used to deliver the energy into the prostate. Click here for details. Click here for details. Ho rmone therapy.
Most prostate cancers are hormone-dependent and use the male hormone testosterone to grow.
Hormonal therapy works by lowering the amount of testosterone available in the body to act on the prostate and thus it slows the cancer growth. Hormone therapy is usually given either to shrink the prostate or in cases where the cancer has spread beyond the confines of the prostate gland. This procedure uses liquid nitrogen to freeze the prostate. Several small metallic tubes are inserted while you are under anesthesia, and liquid nitrogen is instilled into the prostate. This drops the temperature in the prostate to way below freezing.