title: Prostate cancer therapy: standard management, new options and experimental approaches.
abstract: The management of prostate cancer is one of the core tasks for urologists today. This review focuses on therapeutic options for the curative and palliative treatment of prostate cancer. Within the area of urological competence, radical prostatectomy remains the standard procedure for the curative treatment of localised prostate cancer. Recently, interest in minimally-invasive procedures such as brachytherapy, focused ultrasound and cryotherapy has increased considerably. Established palliative treatment strategies include hormonal treatment schemes as the gold standard. Chemotherapeutic regimes are used for the hormone refractory disease. In addition to both the standard and new urological therapeutic options, promising experimental systemic strategies for the generalised disease are presented in this review.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University Hospital Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, D-68167 Mannheim, Germany. lutz.trojan@uro.ma.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Trojan
authors.forename: Koba
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kiknavelidze
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Knoll
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alken
authors.forename: Maurice Stephan
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Michel
mesh_terms: D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000379:methods; D017679:Cryotherapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors; D014464:Ultrasonic Therapy / Q000379:methods