Patient's question:
Frequency of urination, urgency of urination for three monthsDoctor's answer:
The treatment methods for prostate cancer should be determined based on the patient's age, overall health condition, the extent of local tumor involvement, and whether there is metastasis. For early-stage patients, treatment recommendations are relatively uniform, involving radical prostatectomy and orchiectomy, followed by hormone therapy. For intermediate-stage patients, radiotherapy can be added on the basis of the aforementioned treatments. If the patient is elderly and frail with poor overall health, expanded-field external beam radiotherapy can be used alone. If the patient's condition is still manageable, internal radiation therapy can also be added. For late-stage patients without lymph node or bone metastasis, pelvic lymph node dissection and radical prostatectomy can be performed for young and healthy individuals. If a few lymph node metastases are found post-surgery, hormone therapy and expanded-field radiotherapy can be supplemented. For late-stage elderly and frail patients or those with bone metastasis, surgical treatment is generally not recommended. Hormone therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or cryotherapy can be considered instead.