Treatment for prostate cancer includes prostate removal surgery, cryosurgery, radiation therapy, watchful waiting, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, and complementary urologic medicine. The advantage of prostate cancer surgery, also called prostatectomy, is that it removes the cancer from the body. The other treatments for prostate cancer are also covered on this website. These alternative treatments are used according to the stage of prostate cancer, age, overall health, personal preferences, and where the cancer is located. Another determining factor is the experience and skill of the doctor performing the procedure, whatever that procedure may be.

Treatment for prostate cancer using surgery at our Miami urology center includes open prostatectomy, laparoscopic prostatectomy, and the da Vinci prostatectomy also known as a robotic prostatectomy. Our Ivy League urology staff also offers cryosurgery for prostate cancer. During cryotherapy the prostate is frozen and thawed to kill the prostate cancer. Another treatment for prostate cancer that is offered is radiation therapy. This is done in two ways, the first, is by external beam radiation, and the second, is by placing tiny radiation seeds into the prostate. In both cases the radiation kills the cancer cells in the prostate. Another modality is hormone therapy which involves injections of hormones to control the cancer. Still another method used is “watchful waiting” which involves assessing you prostate cancer from time to time with out treatment unless the cancer starts to grow.

These treatments for prostate cancer are covered in this website and we also have quick links and hyperlinks to bring you to more specific information about your prostate cancer and urological needs.

Prostate cancer surgery has been the gold standard in urology for decades. The advantage in prostate surgery is that it is performed all over the world and there is a vast knowledge base that has been created for surgeons to perfect prostate cancer surgery. Fortunately there are many urologists throughout the world that can perform a prostatectomy efficiently and with good results. This world wide wealth of prostate cancer surgery, led to improvements, such as laparoscopic surgery.

Treatment for prostate cancer improved surgically, with the advent of laparoscopic instruments and, as time went on, the experience of the urologists that took on this new paradigm in prostate removal. The benefits included less blood loss, quicker recovery, shorter hospital stays, and smaller scars compared to open prostatectomy. Our urologists at the Miami urology center are all experienced surgeons in minimally invasive laparoscopic prostatectomy.