🎀Understanding Prostate Cancer
A calm path through prostate cancer basics, screening and diagnosis, staging, treatment choices including active surveillance, and life afterward.
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infoThis learning path is educational only. It is not a treatment plan. Your healthcare team can help you understand what applies to your situation.
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What is prostate cancer?
The basics, in plain language.
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Signs and symptoms
What people may notice, and when to ask a doctor.
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PSA test and screening
How the PSA test is used, and its trade-offs.
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Getting a diagnosis
How prostate cancer is confirmed.
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What a biopsy involves
The test that confirms the diagnosis.
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Understanding staging
What stage and grade mean here.
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Treatment overview
Options from surveillance to surgery and radiation.
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Hormone therapy
How hormone therapy is used in prostate cancer.
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Questions to ask your team
Build your appointment question list.
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Prostate cancer clinical trials
How research studies fit into care.
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Living well afterward
Survivorship and follow-up care.
Helpful words to know
Plain-language definitions in our glossary.