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Hormonal Therapy When Cancer Has Spread Beyond The Prostate Gland written by Donald Saunders
One common treatment for prostate cancer which has spread beyond the prostate gland is hormonal therapy and here we examine two alternative approaches.

What Does Radiation Therapy For Localized Prostate Cancer Involve? written by Donald Saunders
One very common treatment for localized prostate cancer is radiation therapy in the form of either external beam radiation therapy or internal implanted radiation therapy.

What is Brachytherapy? written by Sean Domenic
There are several ways of giving radiation dosage to a cancerous tumor. The most common method is to deliver the required dosage from an external beam of radiation produced outside the body. In this case the source of radiation beam is located 80-100 cm from the body of the person receiving radiation. Sometimes placing the source of radiation within the tumor might have advantages over delivering radiation from an external source. This method of delivering required radiation from an internal source embedded within the tumor is called brachytherapy.

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