Your doctor needs to know the stage of your disease to plan treatment. Cancer cells may be found in only one area of the prostate or they may be found in many areas of the prostate. The tumor may be shown by a blood test or felt in the prostate during a rectal exam, but the cancer cells are found only in the prostate gland. It may come back in the prostate or in another part of the body. How cancer of the prostate is treated There are treatments for all patients with cancer of the prostate.
Surgery is a common treatment for cancer of the prostate.
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. If the lymph nodes contain cancer, usually your doctor will not do a prostatectomy, and may or may not recommend other therapy at this time. Impotence and leakage of urine from the bladder can occur in men treated with surgery.