The physical effects of hormone therapy for prostate cancer can impact your daily life.
Side effects of prostate cancer.
However these radiotherapy side effects are less common and occur only when the radiation damages your body.
Cancer treatment affects people in different ways so you may not experience every side effect.
Find out about choosing treatments and managing side effects.
Read about what problems advanced prostate cancer can cause and how to manage your symptoms.
The type and severity of side effects you have with external beam radiation for prostate cancer may depend on the dose and on the amount of healthy tissue that s exposed to the radiation.
Until now however there haven t been good long term data to help oncologists help men with prostate cancer make informed choices about treatment that take these side effect risks into account.
Sometimes these side effects are temporary and get better with time.
Prostate cancer can spread from the prostate to other parts of the body.
Just as prostate cancer varies from man to man the side effects experienced will vary from man to man.
Many men who have advanced prostate cancer experience side effects.
Long term side effects of radiation therapy for prostate cancer studies show that over time men who have undergone this procedure tend to develop long term side effects.
Some of these side effects result from the treatments used to slow the spread of cancer other side effects come from the disease.
Most side effects are temporary can be controlled and generally improve over time once treatment has ended.
This section discusses side effects that might be experienced as well as advice on managing those side effects.
This is called advanced prostate cancer.