Making the Decision to Have Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer

Your doctor may recommend hormone treatment if any of these applies to you.

• You are older, neither surgery nor radiation is a good option for you, and you don’t want to try watchful waiting.

• Your cancer has spread to somewhere else in your body.

• Your cancer has come back after being treated.

• You are also having external radiation for local prostate cancer.

• Your prostate cancer is advanced, meaning it has spread to more distant parts of the body. This is also called metastatic cancer. Hormone treatment may ease your symptoms.

Talk with your doctor about what you can expect to feel during and after the treatment.