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title: "Advanced Prostate Cancer"
url: https://itstimetotalkaboutoab.org/urology-a-z/a_/advanced-prostate-cancer/
description: "When prostate cancer spreads beyond the prostate or returns after treatment, it is often called advanced prostate cancer."
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# Advanced Prostate Cancer

When prostate cancer spreads beyond the prostate or returns after treatment, it is often called advanced prostate cancer.

Archived from the 2022 edition

## Overview

Prostate cancer is often grouped into four stages, with stages III and IV being more advanced prostate cancer.

When an early stage prostate cancer is found, it may be treated or placed on surveillance (watching closely). Advanced prostate cancer is not "curable," but there are many ways to treat it. Treatment can help slow advanced prostate cancer progression.

## In this entry

The archived page carried these sections, in this order.

- Biochemical Recurrence
- Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC)
- Non-Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (nmCRPC)
- Metastatic Prostate Cancer
- Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mHSPC)
- Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
- Symptoms
- Risks
- Diagnosis
- Blood Tests

## Other entries in Prostate Cancer and Health

- [Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)](https://itstimetotalkaboutoab.org/urology-a-z/b/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia-(bph)/)
- [Prostate Cancer](https://itstimetotalkaboutoab.org/urology-a-z/p/prostate-cancer/)

### Source of this entry

- Original address**/urology-a-z/a_/advanced-prostate-cancer/**
- Edition**2022 edition**
- Group**Prostate Cancer and Health**

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