Prostate Cancer Care - Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic experts work with advanced imaging technologies to detect cancer early, diagnose cancer correctly, and monitor cancer effectively.

Your team is also highly experienced in the most advanced treatment options. You’ll have access to:

Minimally invasive and nerve-sparing procedures that lead to better outcomes and fewer complications
Radiation treatments including stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and hypofractionation for shorter treatment duration
Proton Beam Therapy that delivers precise radiotherapy to cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue
Salvage therapy for recurrence, including cryotherapy
Individualized therapies based on your genes for better impact and fewer side effects
Cutting edge clinical trials

Mayo Clinic's multidisciplinary specialists coordinate with one another. They do the heavy lifting so you don't have to. This means your entire team stays up to speed and focused on you which, can create a better care experience and shorter treatment times.

Prostate Cancer Therapy is Rapidly Advancing and New Treatments Are Available

Not all prostate cancers are equal. Some of them are serious and require multiple different treatments for cure, but some don't need treatment at all. It all depends on when the prostate cancer is diagnosed, how far it spread, and what kind of prostate cancer it is. The genitourinary practice in Mayo Clinic is organized across our three campuses, Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida. We have a very large genitourinary practice comprised of Urology, radiation oncology, and medical oncology. We assess the patients altogether as team. And to make sure we are delivering the right treatment at the right time.

Prostate cancer right now is a rapidly moving field in terms of the treatment options that are available to patients. When the prostate cancer is just in the prostate, things such as surgery, focal therapy, radiation therapy, or when that cancer spread to other areas where you may need more than just one particular treatment for cure of the disease. That may mean things like surgery and radiation and hormone therapy or chemotherapy. In the realm of radiation therapy, we have been able to see that short courses are as effective or a little bit more effective than longer courses so we can treat the patient a little bit faster.

The most exciting new development for prostate cancer patients is the FDA approval for Lutetium-177-PSMA directed therapy. The attraction of this drug is at the PSMA molecule, takes this radioactive isotope and delivers it precisely directly to the prostate cancer cell. Now along with the Lutetium treatment, there is new imaging that's PSMA directed. Nuclear medicine imaging detects things at the cellular level, at the tissue function level, which can detect things at an earlier stage. The same molecules that help us see the cancer from nuclear medicine, we can attach a payload of either chemical or radiation particles to it. So instead of radiating your whole body, they will target the specific areas of prostate cancer.

Without question, we see our purpose at Mayo Clinic as driving the field forward, existing on the cutting edge, trying to find those cures. The most important thing that's reassuring is that you have a team of individuals dedicated to you and your individual cancer.

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Prostate Cancer Therapy is Rapidly Advancing and New Treatments Are Available

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