Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Prostate Cancer: Treatment Options


Today, twice I was asked: How is prostate cancer treated?
We have come a long way from the days of supernatural explanations of disease, and all things related medicine.
When we talk about instinct in medicine, we usually talk about expert clinicians grasping diagnoses in ways that seem to defy analytical explanation. These doctors appear to know almost intuitively which data to focus on and which to ignore. Of course, their decision-making is based on experience and deductive reasoning (and perhaps on evidence, too), yet it seems almost mystical. This sort of diagnostic intuition is becoming rare in the current era of technological medicine. But,we are facing with many diagnostic and therapeutic mysteries time to time. I will never forget, when my father told me: "If one of the your patients have atypical case of a rare disease, be careful somebody will knock at your door with the same diagnoses..." This may sound weird... Believe it or not weird medical mysteries really do exist.
So,how is prostate cancer treated?

There are a wide variety of treatment options available for men with prostate cancer, including surgery, radiation therapy, hormone therapy and chemotherapy, any or all of which might be used at different times depending on the stage of disease and the need for treatment.

unfortunately, as of yet, none of targeted therapies have been approved by the FDA for use in prostate cancer, so very important is harnessing the Immune System to fight Off cancer cells. Day after day, the effects of dietary and lifestyle changes on the development and progression of prostate cancer are being discussed and explored by leading researchers in the field.

Which foods and nutrients have been shown to be beneficial for patients with prostate cancer? How reliable are the data for nutritional strategies in prostate cancer? Are there foods or nutrients that might prevent prostate cancer or even prevent or delay a recurrence of the disease? Is Vision right product to affect the development and progression of prostate cancer? Answer is: YES

Ramaz Mitaishvili

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