TREATMENT OPTIONS IN PROSTATE CANCER

Once prostate cancer has been diagnosed, patients are usually separated into 3 groups depending upon the extent of disease for deciding on the line of management:
1.EARLY STAGE or ORGAN CONFINED DISAEASE
2.LOCALLY ADVANCED STAGE
3.METASTATIC DISEASE
The staging of prostate cancer is also done on the basis of TNM classification.T denotes the extent of primary tumor in the prostate gland.N denotes the extent of spread to the regional lymph nodes and M denotes the extent of spread to distant regions/organs in the body. Once the staging has been done, this information is taken into account for deciding the best treatment option.