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Treatment Options
If you have prostate cancer, the treatment your doctor or doctors suggest will depend on several factors, including your age, your general state of health, and the cancer itself—whether it is early-stage disease or advanced disease.
At SCCA, you may choose your doctor according to the treatment you would like to receive. Or, you may choose to meet with a team of providers who will collaborate and discuss the best options for treatment for your cancer.
As a patient at SCCA you have access to all the treatment options currently available, as well as new therapies offered only in clinical trials. This is one advantage of seeking treatment at SCCA, which has two strong research organizations behind it: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW Medicine.
Prostate cancer is a complex disease. In some cases, it grows slowly over 10 to 20 years—and may never move beyond the prostate. How this disease is treated is different than the treatment for advanced, aggressive disease, which may be treated with surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or hormone therapy.
The choice that you make for your treatment is a personal and individual one. The key to making a good decision is getting input from an experienced team of leading prostate cancer specialists who know what the outcomes and quality of life issues are with each treatment.
