Prostate Cancer
Prostate care at RPCI integrates surgical, radiation, and medical oncology specialists tailoring personalized treatment plans. They work in concert with your primary care physician, ensuring continuity of care from diagnosis through long-term follow-up.
Strong connections between research and clinical care is evident in medical advances and technologies developed at RPCI:
- Robot-assisted surgery and other minimally invasive techniques are now used to perform 99% of prostate cancer surgeries at Roswell Park.
- Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test detects prostate cancer 5–10 years earlier than previous screening methods.
- LNCaP, the most studied prostate cancer cell line in the world.
- Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses lasers to activate photosensitive drugs to kill cancer cells.
