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Therapy options
Brachytherapy
Brachytherapy is a new, gentle form of treatment available to patients with localized prostate cancer. In addition to total surgical removal of the prostate gland, brachytherapy has become a
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Seed implantation
"Seed implantation" is a state-of-the-art radiation therapy procedure used for patients with localized prostate cancer.
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Afterloading
The most effective and at the same time most gentle treatment for advanced or aggressive prostate cancer is afterloading.
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External irradiation
Today, external radiation therapy is performed only with modern linear accelerators. A linear accelerator is comparable to a giant X-ray tube,
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Radical surgery
If the prostate carcinoma is organ confined after all preliminary examinations, there is also the option of surgical removal of the prostate in addition to local internal or external radiation therapy.
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Hormone therapy
Due to changes in hormone distribution, fluctuations and imbalances in the male hormone balance occur with age. The consequence is a growth of benign but also the stimulation of
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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is usually used in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, i.e., when the tumor has progressed during hormonal therapy despite suppressed androgens
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Active surveillance (Active Surveillance)
For slow-growing or non-growing prostate cancers, Active Surveillance provides another option, namely "no treatment".
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Lymphadenectomy
In order to choose the best form of treatment for you, it is of great importance to know whether there are tumor deposits in the lymph nodes. If this is the case, your disease is located
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PSMA Therapy
Lutetium-177-PSMA therapy is a novel nuclear medicine procedure for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. It is considered in patients,
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Experimental forms of therapy
In addition to the established forms of therapy used in our center with reliable long-term results from international studies, other clinics also use treatments
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