So how do you choose?

A guide for men and their partners on how to choose a treatment option for prostate cancer

In authoring the content for this DVD my main concern was to help men and their families to better understand the disease and treatment options.

I have spent over twenty years researching and treating prostate cancer. In that time I have performed the largest series of nerve sparing radical prostatectomy surgeries (many now being performed robotically) and brachytherapies in Australasia.

Robotic surgery now offers us a less invasive way of performing radical prostatectomy and is being increasingly utilised. Another less invasive new technology treatment offered is HIFU - high intensity focused ultrasound.

It is from this position of being able to offer most forms of therapy for prostate cancer that my team and I can give the sort of information and advice that will assist patients to understand the appropriate treatment for their particular localised prostate cancer.

And then for each patient tailor an optimal treatment programme.

The Prostate Cancer Centre is committed to alerting men to early detection and avoidance of this condition and getting the best outcome for men already afflicted. The web affords us an excellent two way information channel that helps us to do just that. It is my sincere hope that you find the information useful and I urge you to recommend www.prostate.com.au to those who could benefit from it.

Phillip Stricker

Associate Professor Stricker is Chairman of the Department of Urology at St. Vincent's
Clinic in Sydney, Director of the St Vincent's Prostate Cancer Clinic, Director of
Uro-oncology research at St Vincent's Clinic, Department of Urology and Conjoint Associate
Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of New South Wales.