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Treatment Choices for Men With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
    Posted: 02/14/2006
2. What are the medical terms for these treatment options?

Watchful Waiting

Also called active surveillance or observation
Surgery
  • Prostatectomy
    - Retropubic
    - Perineal
  • Cryosurgery (or cryotherapy)
  • Laparoscopic prostatectomy
Radiation Therapy

External Beam Radiation

  • 3-D Conformal Radiation Therapy
  • Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

Brachytherapy or Seed Implants - low dose or high dose

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1http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/prostate-cancer-treatment-choices/page5
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/prostate-cancer-treatment-choices/page4
3http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/prostate-cancer-treatment-choices/page7