Prostate Cancer
Expertise for complex prostate cancer care
Every patient's tumor is unique. Mayo Clinic physicians and other specialists develop an individualized plan for each person.
At Mayo Clinic, a multidisciplinary team of doctors works together to care for men with prostate cancer and related issues.
Your Mayo Clinic care team
- Expertise across all disciplines. Mayo Clinic physicians are highly skilled not in some aspects of prostate cancer care, but across all specialties involved in care for these patients.
- Collaboration. Mayo Clinic urologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists and radiologists rely on strong collaboration and multidisciplinary discussion to provide comprehensive care to each person seen with prostate cancer.
- Experience. Mayo Clinic doctors care for more than 12,000 men with prostate cancer every year. That extensive experience means your care team is prepared with the knowledge and resources to provide you with exactly the diagnoses, treatments and follow-up care you need.
- A full range of treatments to consider. Mayo Clinic doctors will work with you to review all of your treatment options and choose the treatment that best suits your needs and goals. The range of treatments offered to men with prostate cancer includes active surveillance, radiation therapy, proton beam therapy, hormone therapy, cryosurgery, chemotherapy and surgery, including robotic prostatectomy.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
Cutting-edge diagnostic options
- Mayo Clinic is the first medical center in the United States approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prepare and administer C-11 choline PET scanning to help detect recurrent prostate cancer at its earliest stages — before it can be detected by other imaging tests — and enable more-precise targeting for follow-up treatment.
- Mayo Clinic is also leveraging MRI-TRUS fusion technology, which blends (fuses) images from an MRI scan and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) to create a more-precise 360-degree prostate map, which in turn can improve prostate biopsy accuracy.
- Doctors in Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine are advancing research on the use of biomarkers in blood and in prostate tissue to better individualize and optimize treatment for men with prostate cancer. The technology helps caregivers distinguish between insignificant and significant prostate cancer, as well as identify particularly aggressive prostate cancer in men undergoing surgery.
The latest treatment options
- Mayo Clinic surgeons have been performing and perfecting the radical prostatectomy procedure for decades and have contributed significant advances in the understanding of robotic prostatectomy technology and techniques.
Radiation therapy
Mayo Clinic radiation oncologists are experts in planning treatment that targets prostate cancer cells and spares as much nearby healthy tissue as possible.
Mayo Clinic leverages the latest radiation therapy techniques, including:
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
- 3D conformal radiation
- Image-guided radiation therapy
- Prostate brachytherapy
- Proton beam therapy
- Stereotactic radiosurgery
Additionally, Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy Program in Arizona and Minnesota offers a new radiotherapy option to men with prostate cancer who can benefit from highly targeted precision beam therapy. Intensity-modulated proton beam therapy with pencil beam scanning can destroy cancer while sparing healthy tissue, with fewer side effects.
Comprehensive cancer center
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center meets strict standards for a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center, which recognizes scientific excellence and a multidisciplinary approach to cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Learn more about prostate cancer at Mayo Clinic.