The length of a prostate cancer patient’s treatment varies greatly depending on the stage of the disease at which it is detected and the type of treatment in question. Some treatments last 1–2 hours (such as brachytherapy, with one day of hospitalisation), others imply several days in hospital and catheterisation of 7–21 days (such as surgery) and others last around a month and a half (such as external radiotherapy). There are some which also need lifelong treatment (such as hormone therapy).
Normally, and regardless of therapy, follow-up care for prostate cancer patients must be lifelong or last at least 10–15 years after the initial treatment.