Treatment of recurrent prostate cancer may include the following:

• Radiation therapy.
• Prostatectomy for patients initially treated with radiation therapy.
• Hormone therapy.
• Pain medication, external radiation therapy, internal radiation therapy with radioisotopes such as strontium-89, or other treatments as palliative therapy to lessen bone pain.
• A clinical trial of ultrasound -guided cryosurgery.
• A clinical trial of chemotherapy or biological therapy.

This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.

Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with recurrent prostate cancer.

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