Screening, Prevention, & Early Detection
Understand how screening, prevention & early detection work together to help protect your health.
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Understand how screening, prevention & early detection work together to help protect your health.
Entender cómo las pruebas de cernimiento, la prevención y la detección temprana funcionan en conjunto para ayudar a proteger su salud.
Kimberly Williams is a senior government affairs executive with more than 20 years of experience leading federal...
Hormone therapy uses drugs to stop the body from producing testosterone. Less commonly, it may
include surgical removal of the testicles. Without testosterone, prostate cancer cells may die or
grow more slowly
Radiation therapy uses high-powered energy to kill cancer cells.
Immunotherapy uses the body’s natural defenses (the immune system) to find, attack, and kill
cancer cells. Some kinds of immunotherapy use your own immune cells, while others use
medicines that are made in a lab.
Targeted therapy aims to more precisely attack cancer cells. These drugs target changes in the
genes or proteins of cancer cells that help them grow, divide, and spread.