| Almost everyone frets when they hear about the | | | | oncologist may decide to forgo treatment and |
| aggressive stage or type of prostate cancer. I | | | | observe to see if the disease will continue to |
| don't blame them because at this stage of the | | | | progress or if it will be slow enough for something |
| condition, it's very critical and dealing with it | | | | else to catch and kill the patient first. |
| becomes incredibly difficult. The first part of this | | | | Later-stage prostate cancers have spread farther |
| article looks closely at it and throws some light on | | | | than the immediacy of the gland; likewise the |
| how anyone can deal with it. | | | | more aggressive manifestations of the disease do |
| Aggressive prostate cancer is often determined | | | | so faster and are even more resistant to earlier |
| not by the stage of the cancer, but by observing | | | | treatments. As a result they would usually require |
| the disease for a while after diagnosis, even with | | | | more aggressive treatment. |
| treatment. After cancer of the prostate is | | | | On the one hand, treatment would be meant to |
| diagnosed, the physician may decide more tests | | | | stifle the growth and progression of the disease, |
| are necessary to determine if the cancer has | | | | whether in order to cure it, or merely to provide |
| spread beyond the prostate gland in a process | | | | palliative care. The chances are that an aggressive |
| known as staging. | | | | prostate cancer would probably be also hormone |
| Early-stage cancers have not spread from the | | | | refractory. If it is not, good for the patient; but if |
| prostate or they only spread to nearby tissues | | | | it is, then other remedies will have to be applied, |
| and should be treatable, curable even. In some | | | | perhaps immunotherapy, or chemotherapy, or |
| instances, though, if the patient is quite old, the | | | | even radiation treatment. |