Prostate cancer recurrence

Recurrent prostate cancer care at Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic doctors provide expert care for people with prostate cancer recurrence. Mayo Clinic offers an integrated clinical practice across its campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota. Each campus offers the latest tests and treatments. You and your healthcare team can select the best treatment for you.

Your Mayo Clinic care team

People with recurrent prostate cancer receive care from doctors at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with three locations in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

At Mayo Clinic, doctors and specialists work in multidisciplinary teams to address all your needs and explore all your options. Benefits of the team approach include:

• Expertise across all disciplines. Mayo Clinic doctors are highly skilled not in some aspects of prostate cancer care, but across all specialties involved in care for people with the condition.
• Collaboration. Mayo Clinic urologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists and radiologists rely on strong collaboration and multidisciplinary discussion to provide comprehensive care to each person with prostate cancer recurrence.
• A full range of treatments to consider. Mayo Clinic doctors work with you to review all your treatment options and choose a treatment that meets your needs and goals. The range of treatments offered includes many types of radiation therapy, including external beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy, proton radiation therapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy. Other treatments might include ablation procedures, such as cryoablation and high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation, and surgery, including robotic prostatectomy. Many medicines are offered for recurrent prostate cancer, including hormone therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and radiopharmaceutical treatments.

Advanced diagnosis and treatment

Mayo Clinic specialists have access to the latest diagnosis and treatment innovations to provide you with an accurate diagnosis and effective treatment plan. This includes:

• Detecting cancer recurrence sooner. Mayo Clinic was the first medical center to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to prepare and administer the choline C-11 PET scan. This scan helped doctors find prostate cancer recurrence sooner than other imaging available at the time. This innovation in prostate cancer imaging continues, as Mayo Clinic offers the latest tests, such as the PSMA PET scan.
• Precisely planning radiation to reduce side effects. Mayo Clinic radiation oncologists are experts in planning salvage radiation treatment that targets prostate cancer cells and spares nearby healthy tissue as much as possible. Mayo Clinic offers the latest in prostate cancer radiation options, including proton beam therapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy.
• Experience in complex operations. Salvage prostatectomy can be a very challenging operation because radiation therapy causes changes to the prostate and surrounding tissues. This operation requires skilled and experienced surgeons who can perform the procedure in a way that limits the risks. Mayo Clinic urologic surgeons have extensive experience using operations such as robotic prostatectomy to treat prostate cancer recurrence.

Conocimientos y categorías

Mayo Clinic doctors are widely respected for their experience and expertise in caring for people with prostate cancer recurrence. When you seek care at Mayo Clinic, you can expect:

• Personalized care. Mayo Clinic urologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists and radiologists work together to ensure all your needs are addressed when creating your customized treatment plan.
• Experience you can trust. Each year, more than 23,000 people with prostate cancer receive care at Mayo Clinic. This experience means your care team is prepared with knowledge and resources to provide you with exactly the care you need.
• Center of excellence for radiopharmaceutical treatments. The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging has designated Mayo Clinic as a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence. This honor extends to the Mayo Clinic campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
• Nationally recognized expertise. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets the strict standards for a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. These standards recognize scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with three locations in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

Mayo Clinic en Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic en Jacksonville, Florida, y Mayo Clinic en Phoenix y Scottsdale, Arizona, se encuentran entre los mejores hospitales para la atención médica oncológica, según la clasificación de U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic en Rochester, Minnesota, está clasificada como el mejor hospital de Minnesota y Mayo Clinic en Phoenix y Scottsdale, Arizona, está clasificada como el mejor hospital de Arizona.