In-Depth
Prostate cancer
Risk factors
- Obesity Obesity — Comprehensive overview covers causes, treatment and prevention of this serious health risk.
Symptoms
- Urinary incontinence Urinary incontinence — Comprehensive overview covers causes, treatment of loss of bladder control.
- Symptom Checker Use this Symptom Checker to pinpoint possible causes of your medical symptoms.
Tests and diagnosis
- Prostate cancer screening: Should you get a PSA test? Prostate cancer screening — Find out whether the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is right for you.
- Biopsy: Types of biopsy procedures used to diagnose cancer Biopsy procedures, including needle biopsy and bone marrow biopsy, are used to diagnose cancer.
- Needle biopsy Common needle biopsy procedures include fine-needle aspiration and core needle biopsy.
- PSA test PSA test — Overview covers definition, risks, results of this test for signs of prostate cancer.
- Intravenous pyelogram Intravenous pyelogram — Overview covers definition, what to expect and results of this imaging test.
- Active surveillance for prostate cancer Active surveillance for prostate cancer — Overview covers definition, risks and what to expect.
- Prostate biopsy Prostate biopsy — Overview covers definition, risks, results of this procedure to detect prostate cancer.
Complications
- Bone metastasis Bone metastasis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of bone metastasis in people with cancer.
Treatments and drugs
- Chemotherapy Chemotherapy — Overview covers definition, risks, what to expect during cancer chemotherapy treatment.
- Cryotherapy for prostate cancer Cryotherapy for prostate cancer — Overview covers risks, what to expect, results of this cancer treatment.
- External beam radiation for prostate cancer External beam radiation for prostate cancer — Overview covers risks, what to expect and results.
- Hormone therapy for prostate cancer Hormone therapy for prostate cancer — Overview covers risks, what to expect and results.
- Prostate brachytherapy Prostate brachytherapy — Comprehensive overview covers definition, risks, results of prostate cancer brachytherapy.
- Proton therapy Proton therapy — Comprehensive overview covers definition, risks, results of proton radiation therapy.
- Brachytherapy Brachytherapy — Overview covers definition, risks, results of this type of radiation therapy for cancer.
Prevention
- Prostate cancer prevention: Ways to reduce your risk Prostate cancer prevention — Reduce your risk through changes to your diet.


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