Prostate Cancer Site Map

Table of Contents		Index
Introduction		Alternate Medicine
What is Prostate Cancer?		Anatomy & Physiology
Demographics Who gets it?		Biopsy Results
Anatomy & Physiology		Bisphosphonates
What are the Symptoms?		Bony Metastases
Who Should be Evaluated?		Brachytherapy
Prostate Examination		Castration
Digital Rectal		Chemotherapy
Prostate Nodule		Combined Therapy
PSA		Consultation
Total vs. Free PSA Ratio		Cryotherapy
		Cycling antiandrogens
		Demographics
What if I have a prostate nodule?		Digital Rectal Examination
What if my PSA is high?		DRE
Consultation		External Beam Radiation, Prostate
Total vs. Free PSA		External Radiation, Metastases
Trans Rectal Ultrasound		Gleason Grade
Needle Biopsy		Green Tea
Biopsy Results		Hormone Therapy
		Hormones + Radiation
What if I have PIN ?		Immunotherapy
How is PIN Diagnosed?		Interstitial Radiation
Does PIN Raise PSA?		IMRT
What does PIN mean?		Late Stage Prostate Cancer
Treatment of PIN		LHRH Inhibitors
		Monoclonal Antibodies
What if Cancer is found?		Needle Biopsy
Gleason Grade		Neoadjuvant Therapy
Is it aggressive?		Nerve Sparing Prostatectomy
		Observation as therapy
How far has it gone?		PC-Spes
Stage A		PIN
Stage B		Positive Margins
Stage C		Prevention
Stage D		Prostate Examination
High Risk Prostate Cancer		Prostate Nodule
		Prostate Specific Antigen
How is Prostate Cancer Treated?		PSA
		PSA, Total vs. Free
Surgery		Radiation Therapy
Radical Prostatectomy		Radical Prostatectomy, standard
Standard Operation		Radical Prostatectomy, nerve sparing
Nerve Sparing Oper.		Radical Prostatectomy, Laparoscopic
Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy		Rapid Interstitial Therapy
Positive Margins		Recurrence after surgery
Recurrence after Surgery		Selenium
		Soy
Radiation Therapy		Stage
External Beam Therapy		Stage D
IMRT		Strontium 89
Interstitial Radiotherapy		Surgery
Brachytherapy or Seeds		Symptoms
Rapid Interstitial Therapy		Therapy Options
Combined Therapy		Who should be evaluated
Neoadjuvant Therapy or
Hormones + Radiation

Combined Therapy

Cryotherapy

Hormone Therapy
Hormonal Therapy
Castration
LHRH Inhibitors
Total Androgen Blockade
Neo Adjuvant Therapy or
Hormones + Radiation


Observation

Late Stage Prostate Cancer
What if it has spread?
What if the cancer comes back?
After surgery
After radiation
After cryotherapy
Cycling antiandrogens
Chemotherapy
Cryotherapy
Bony Metastases
External Beam Radiation
Samarium ¹⁵³
Strontium ⁸⁹
Bisphosphonates
Immunotherapy
Monoclonal Antibodies
Alternate Medicine

Alternate Medicine
PC-Spes		Rev:09/04
PC-SPES ALERT