Assertion: prostate cancer's treatment | /r/HasProperty | helpful
Facets:
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: except in circumstances
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: This can affect your treatment options, since some treatments (such as surgery and radiation) are not likely to be helpful if the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
text: If your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood level shows that your prostate cancer has not been cured or has come back (recurred) after the initial treatment, further treatment can often still be helpful.
text: If the PSA is rising quickly enough to warrant treatment, but localized treatments (such as surgery, radiation therapy, or cryotherapy) aren’t likely to be helpful, hormone therapy is often the next option.
text: Cancer cells in this situation have typically spread through the blood stream or lymphatics to other places in the body, and localized treatments are rarely helpful except in circumstances where urination becomes difficult.