Overview
Aside from skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the U.S. As with any cancer, early detection is the key to successful treatment.
Our teams are on the cutting edge of prostate cancer evaluation and treatment. Fore River Urology physicians follow the American Urological Association (AUA) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s (NCCN) evidence-based practice guidelines to ensure the highest quality of care.
Within our practice, we provide prostate cancer patients up-to-date access to the latest non-surgical and surgical treatment options, including high volume da Vinci robotic surgeons, experienced surgeons in open prostatectomy, access to multi-disciplinary radiation therapy teams, and cutting edge medical therapies for patients with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer via our in-office dispensary and advanced prostate cancer clinic.
Treatment Options:
- Active surveillance: monitoring low risk cancer with periodic exams, blood work, and repeat biopsies
- Surgery: Radical prostatectomy involving removal of the prostate, seminal vesicles, and lymph nodes. Fore River offers both open and robotic prostatectomy.
- Radiation: external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), implanting radioactive seeds (brachytherapy), and other varieties of delivering radiotherapy
- Hormone therapy: medications that can weaken prostate cancer by shutting off the body’s testosterone production
- Focal therapy: freezing, heating, high-intensity ultrasound (HIFU), etc. to kill prostate tissue
- Advanced medical therapies: targeted medications such as abiraterone (Zytiga), enzalutamide (Xtandi), apalutamide (Erleada), darolutamide (Nubeqa) for metastatic prostate cancer
- Immunotherapy: customized cell-based cancer immunotherapy such as Sipuleucel-T (Provenge)
- PARP inhibitors: olaparib (Lynparza)
- Chemotherapy: via our partners in medical oncology
If you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, our expert and caring team will promptly guide you to the information, testing, and treatment you need. For an appointment, please call 207-518-6600.
For more online information about PSA screening and prostate cancer in general, excellent resources can be found at Know Your Stats, the American Cancer Society, and the National Institutes of Health.