IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/epw/ejmed0/v6y2024i6id42218.html

Which Therapeutic Treatment Option is Best for Prostate Cancer?

Author

Listed:
  • Nandi Shalita

    (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)

Abstract

Prostate cancer (PC) is the second most common cancer among men in the developed world. PC spreads very slowly and is often detected late, so it requires much more rigorous treatment options than if it had been detected early. As with most cancer treatments, all these treatment options have their fair share of advantages and disadvantages. After a prostate cancer diagnosis, an assigned oncologist and multi-disciplinary team (MDT) come up with a treatment option that gives the patient a fighting chance considering the stage of the cancer. However, there is no go-to treatment option, and it is important to consider what the patient wants; if there are certain side effects, such as incontinence, that the patient is steadfastly against, it’s important for the MDT to honour this as much as possible.

Suggested Citation

  • Nandi Shalita, 2024. "Which Therapeutic Treatment Option is Best for Prostate Cancer?," European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, European Open Science, vol. 6(6), pages 43-46, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:6:y:2024:i:6:id:42218
    DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2024.6.6.2218
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed/article/view/42218
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed/article/download/42218/10454
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.24018/ejmed.2024.6.6.2218?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:6:y:2024:i:6:id:42218. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.