PROSTATE CANCER PATIENT GUIDE - Cloudinary

1 PATIENT GUIDEA comprehensive resource on diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and risk factors for patients and families with a history of PROSTATE CANCER Be vigilant, live healthy, and don t give up. This disease can be conquered. FORMER COMBAT MARINE, KOREAN WARA bout this guideThere are no two ways about it: being diagnosed with CANCER is hard, and it is life-changing. Despite increasing optimism about treatment, today s CANCER landscape can be challenging, as patients have access to an unprecedented amount of information.

2 There are millions of CANCER -related webpages, blogs, and videos available at your fingertips. But it s important to acknowledge that this isn t always a helpful thing. A CANCER diagnosis can be disorienting, and for many, the overwhelming volume of information available can be more of a burden than an aid. This third edition of the GUIDE focuses all of the most current and most accurate information available about contemporary PROSTATE CANCER research , treatment, and lifestyle factors into one consolidated resource. It is for any man who has been newly diagnosed, who is in treatment, or is concerned about a rising PSA.

3 Beyond that, it s for any loved one or caregiver who wants to cut through the noise and get directly to need-to-know information for PROSTATE CANCER PATIENT navigation. Lastly, as we are beginning to recognize the genetic underpinnings of CANCER , this GUIDE is for any family member who might want to understand how shared genes affect their own short- and long-term risk factors and when they should be gratefully acknowledge the scholarly expertise and contributions of our editors, who are world leaders in PROSTATE CANCER research : Daniel Spratt, MD (Case Western Reserve University); Heather Cheng, MD, PhD (University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson CANCER research Center).

4 Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc, PhD (hon) (New York University and Manhattan Veterans Affairs); Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH (Northwestern University); Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH, (University of California San Francisco); Wassim Abida, MD, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering CANCER Center); Arthur Burnett, MD, MBA (Johns Hopkins University); Nima Sharifi, MD (Cleveland Clinic); William Aronson, MD (UCLA); Angelo Baccala Jr., MD, FACS, MBA (Lehigh Valley Health Network); Neal Shore, MD, FACS (Carolina Urologic research Center); James Schraidt (Us TOO); Andrew Armstrong, MD (Duke University); Bill Curry; Izak Faiena, MD (Columbia University and James J.)

5 Peters VA Medical Center); Christopher Sweeney, MBBS (Dana-Farber CANCER Institute, Harvard Medical School); Howard Soule, PhD ( PROSTATE CANCER Foundation); Stuart Holden, MD ( PROSTATE CANCER Foundation); Jonathan Simons, MD ( PROSTATE CANCER Foundation); Andrea Miyahira, PhD ( PROSTATE CANCER Foundation); Julie DiBiase, PhD, MFA ( PROSTATE CANCER Foundation); and Rebecca Campbell, MD, MPH ( PROSTATE CANCER Foundation).Copyright 2021 by the PROSTATE CANCER Foundation (PCF). Originally produced in 2017. The PROSTATE CANCER Foundation is the world s leading philanthropic organization funding and accelerating PROSTATE CANCER research .

6 Since 1993, the PROSTATE CANCER Foundation has funded key research leading to most of the treatments used by doctors today to improve the lives of patients, with the mission that someday, soon, no man will die of this depicted are models and are used for illustrative purposes only. PROSTATE CANCER standards of practice change regularly. For the most up-to-date information, please register for updates at 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTSABOUT THIS GUIDE 11. ABOUT YOU AND PROSTATE CANCER 7 GENERAL INFORMATION 7 WHAT IS PROSTATE CANCER ?

7 7 SURVIVING PROSTATE CANCER 7 RATES OF DIAGNOSIS 7 RISK FACTORS 9 SYMPTOMS 9 HISTORY & PROGRESS 10 MEDICAL BASICS 11 THE ANATOMY OF THE PROSTATE 12 THE BIOLOGY OF PROSTATE CANCER 12 UNDERSTANDING METASTASIS 13 WHAT IS PSA? 13 THE BIOLOGY OF SEX STEROIDS 14 PRECISION ONCOLOGY 152. FOR THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED 17 UNDERSTANDING YOUR DIAGNOSIS 17 DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS AND STAGING 17 MAKING THE DIAGNOSIS VIA BIOPSY 17 STAGING YOUR DISEASE 19 SELECTING YOUR TREATMENT 22 PROSTATE CANCER PATIENT TREATMENT PATHWAYS 24 ASSEMBLING YOUR TEAM 26 DOCTORS AND PRACTITIONERS 26 FAMILY 27 YOUR SUPPORT NETWORK 27 YOU 29 PROCESSING YOUR DIAGNOSIS 29 TEAR-OUT SHEET: QUESTIONS TO TAKE TO YOUR DOCTOR AFTER INITIAL DIAGNOSIS 31 PROSTATE CANCER PATIENT GUIDE 3 3.

8 TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LOCALIZED OR LOCALLY ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER 33 CHOOSING A TREATMENT OPTION 33 RISK GROUPS 33 ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE 35 WHO SHOULD CHOOSE ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE? 36 SURGERY 37 RADIATION 38 EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY (EBRT) 39 BRACHYTHERAPY 40 HORMONE THERAPY WITH RADIATION 40 WORKSHEET.

9 LOCAL OR LOCALLY ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER 41 WORKSHEET: TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF DURING CANCER 42 EXPERIMENTAL THERAPIES FOR LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER 43 CRYOTHERAPY 44 PROTON BEAM RADIOTHERAPY 44 HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU) 44 PRIMARY HORMONE THERAPY 45 TREATMENT OPTIONS BY STAGE 464. LIVING WITH AND AFTER PROSTATE CANCER 49IN TREATMENT: WHAT TO EXPECT 49 MENTAL HEALTH 49 MAXIMIZING QUALITY OF LIFE 49 MONITORING FOR RECURRENCE 50 POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS 50 URINARY FUNCTION 50 BOWEL FUNCTION 51 FERTILITY 52 SEXUAL FUNCTION 52 PERMANENT UPGRADES TO HEALTHY LIVING 56 DIET 56 EXERCISE 56 LIFESTYLE CHANGES 574 TABLE OF CONTENTS5.

10 WHAT TO DO IF YOUR PSA STARTS TO RISE 59 DETECTING RECURRENCE 59 UNDERSTANDING THE NUMBERS 59 PSA DOUBLING TIME 60 THERAPIES FOR LOCALLY RECURRENT PROSTATE CANCER 61 SALVAGE RADIATION THERAPY FOLLOWING SURGERY 64 SALVAGE PROSTATECTOMY FOLLOWING RADIATION 64 BRACHYTHERAPY FOLLOWING EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION 65 SBRT FOLLOWING RADIATION 65 CRYOTHERAPY FOLLOWING RADIATION 65 HORMONE THERAPY FOLLOWING RADIATION OR SURGERY 65 THERAPIES FOR ADVANCED AND METASTATIC PROSTATE CANCER 66 WHY DOES PROSTATE CANCER COME BACK?