Options After Metastatic Prostate Cancer
A diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer can be distressing. Prostate cancer most often spreads to the bones in the lower back. hip and pelvic area. The cancer may cause unbearable pain as it spreads.
And once the cancer spreads outside the prostate gland there is, as of the time of this post, no known cure. Treatment, such as hormone therapy, at most acts to impede its advancement. However sooner or later the treatment will likely stop being effective and then only palliative treatments become available.
While some male patients live for a number of years besides a diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer this normally depends on a number of variables. A critical factor is the extent to which the cancer has spread before it is diagnosed. Another is the level of the cancer’s aggressiveness. Check with your physician on your choices and prognosis.