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Making Treatment Decisions

You’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer. With so many treatment options, where do you start?

In this section: Decisions Overview Build Your Team Prostate Cancer Grade Prostate Cancer Stage Prognosis Treatment Option Tools Questions to Ask

Learn about your doctors and your medical team.

Find out where you stand- Know your grade, stage and prognosis.

Know your treatment options. Know what questions to ask. 

Prostate cancer is usually slow growing, so unless your doctor tells you otherwise, you should have plenty of time to learn and consider your options.

Your doctor will help you put together a team of specialists and supporters. There are several types of treatment, and different specialists will often recommend different options, so it’s important to know your doctors and get multiple opinions.

Your choice of treatment will depend very much on the details of your particular case. Grading and staging are just methods for putting your cancer into categories, so they can be compared with other cases in order to help make predictions about possible outcomes of treatment.

Know where you stand. Doctors will help you develop your prognosis - a prediction of the possible outcomes of your treatment options.

The field of prostate cancer treatment is constantly improving and changing. There are a lot of questions to ask, but many tools have been created to help you weigh options and make decisions.

Our new Treatment Option Decision Tool allows you to securely enter your medical information and get customized treatment information.