Search: localised prostate cancer

Gleason score

A way of grading prostate cancer biopsies. A low Gleason score indicates a slow-growing cancer and a higher score indicates a faster-growing cancer.

salvage treatment

Different treatments used when prostate cancer has returned….

radical prostatectomy

An operation to remove the entire prostate and some of the tissue around it….

Research snapshot – Psychosocial interventions and cancer-related fatigue Abrahams 2020

…breast cancer and men with non-metastatic prostate cancer. The effect of psychosocial interventions on cancer-related fatigue was not associated with sociodemographic or clinical characteristics, or with the extent of symptoms (fatigue, pain) prior to intervention. Breast cancer patients with clinically-diagnosed…

prostatectomy

An operation to remove all or part of the prostate….

watchful waiting

A way of monitoring prostate cancer that is not causing any symptoms or problems….

seminal vesicles

Glands that lie close to the prostate and produce secretions that form part of the semen….

BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene

A gene change that increases the risk of getting breast, ovarian or prostate cancer.

primary cancer

The original cancer. Cells from the primary cancer may break away and be carried to other parts of the body, where secondary cancers may form….

News: Cancer Council Queensland urges women to prioritise health to reduce burden of women’s cancers

cancers make up 75 per cent of women’s cancer cases, followed by uterine cancer at 11 per cent, ovarian cancer at seven per cent and cervical cancer at five per cent. “The good news is over the past 20 years…