If your doctor feels anything that is not normal, he or she may need to take cells from your prostate and look at them under a microscope. Your doctor will usually do this by putting a needle into the prostate to remove some cells. This is called a fine needle aspiration or a needle biopsy. To plan treatment, your doctor needs to know the stage of your disease. There are treatments for all patients with cancer of the prostate.
Surgery is a common treatment of cancer of the prostate.
Your doctor may take out the cancer using one of the following operations. Radical prostatectomy is the removal of the prostate and some of the tissue around it. Radical prostatectomy is done only if the cancer has not spread outside the prostate. Often before the prostatectomy is done, 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.