Understanding locally advanced prostate cancer
This audiobook is about locally advanced prostate cancer. This is when the cancer has grown through the capsule surrounding the prostate. It may have started to spread into tissue or organs close by.
The audiobook explains the different treatments for locally advanced prostate cancer and their side effects. It also has information about the feelings you might experience, and how your relationships, work and finances might be affected.
In this audiobook
- 1 Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Cancer and the prostate
- 4 What is locally advanced prostate cancer
- 5 Risk factors and causes
- 6 Staging and grading
- 7 Your data and the cancer registry
- 8 Treating locally advanced prostate cancer
- 9 Radiotherapy
- 10 Side effects of external beam radiotherapy
- 11 Brachytherapy and possible side effects
- 12 Hormonal therapy
- 13 Watchful waiting
- 14 Surgery
- 15 Recovery from surgery
- 16 Side effects from surgery
- 17 Transurethral resection of the prostate, also called a TURP
- 18 Chemotherapy
- 19 Clinical trials
- 20 Follow-up after treatment
- 21 Well-being and recovery
- 22 Sex after prostate cancer
- 23 Your feelings
- 24 Relationships
- 25 Talking to children about cancer
- 26 If you are a family member or friend
- 27 Work
- 28 Financial help and benefits
- 29 About our information
- 30 Other ways we can help you
- 31 Other organisations
- 32 Further resources
- 33 Can you do something to help
- 34 Information about this recording
This audiobook is about locally advanced prostate cancer. This is when the cancer has grown through the capsule surrounding the prostate. It may have started to spread into tissue or organs close by.
The audiobook explains the different treatments for locally advanced prostate cancer and their side effects. It also has information about the feelings you might experience, and how your relationships, work and finances might be affected.
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