Prostate Cancer Treatment | Skin Cancer Surgery

Surgery to remove the prostate: Surgery for prostate cancer involves removing the prostate gland (radical prostatectomy), some surrounding tissue and a few lymph nodes. Radical prostatectomy can be performed in several ways:

Robotic Surgery: Robotic prostatectomy allows the surgeon to make more-precise movements with surgical tools than is possible with traditional minimally invasive surgery.
Open Surgery: Making an incision in the lower abdomen to remove the Prostate gland.
Laparoscopic Surgery: This is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used to remove a patient’s cancerous prostate. Laparoscopic surgery differs from traditional open surgery by making small incisions as opposed to large ones to perform the surgery.

Orchiectomy: It is a Surgery to remove the testicles. Removing the testicles reduces testosterone levels in the body. It is a form of hormone therapy that is used in advanced prostate cancers to shrink the cancer cells and reduce the rate of growth of tumours.