Making the Prostate Cancer Decision

This website provides information about prostate cancer (often misspelled prostrate cancer), including prostate health, prostate exams, prostate cancer stages, what is prostate cancer, the PSA blood test, elevated PSA, Gleason score, treatments and treatment options, prostate cancer surgery (prostatectomy or radical prostatectomy), prostate problems, sex after prostate surgery, prostate pictures, and other prostate facts.

How This Website Can Help

If a biopsy has shown that you have early stage prostate cancer, this website is for you. It gives you the facts about your disease, your treatment choices, and the possible results of those choices.

This website is designed to help you understand medical facts and to talk with your doctor. It is not medical advice. It should not take the place of your doctor's advice and suggestions. Talk with your doctor about all your prostate cancer treatment choices.

Learn all you can so you can make your choice. Share this website with your doctor and loved ones. Talk to people you trust. Many others have learned and coped. You can, too. 

Download the Booklet

To download an Adobe Acrobat PDF or audio version of "Making the Choice: Deciding What to Do About Early Stage Prostate Cancer," choose one of the following links.

• PDF Version

  • English

  • Spanish

  • Arabic

  • English version as adapted by the South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency in Shelton, WA, for use by members of five Northwest Tribes (Chehalis, Nisqually, Shoalwater Bay, Skokomish and Squaxin Island)

• Audio Version

  • English

Selected Resources

• Michigan Cancer Consortium Fact Sheets About Symptoms After Prostate Cancer Treatment (series of 14 fact sheets, each available in English, Spanish and Arabic language versions)

• Michigan Cancer Consortium Prostate Cancer Resources page (in support of the Consortium's Prostate Cancer Goal for 2009-2015)

• Michigan Cancer Consortium Prostate Cancer Early Detection Recommendations (2005) (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)

• Michigan Cancer Consortium Guidelines for the Primary Care Management of Prostate Cancer Post-Treatment Sequelae (2009) (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)

• Michigan Cancer Consortium Prostate Health Awareness Program Tool Kit
  

PSA Promoting Prostate Cancer Awareness and this Website (October 2011; MP3 file, 1 minute in length)

Produced by the Michigan Department of Community Health, in conjunction with the Michigan Cancer Consortium and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.

In this English-language radio spot, a prostate cancer survivor named Lonnie encourages men who think they may have prostate cancer to get checked and, if diagnosed, to read, learn, talk with their doctor, and make decisions. The announcer encourages men who have been diagnosed to talk with their healthcare provider about options and also visit this website to learn more. The PSA is airing on radio stations throughout Michigan during October, November and December 2011.

We've been chosen as part of Cancer.Net!

Our thanks to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which has included this site in the Prostate Cancer Resources section of its searchable Cancer.Net Resources Web portal. We encourage you to explore the resources on their site.