eli5:Does everyone diagnosed cancer need chemotherapy?

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eli5:Does everyone diagnosed cancer need chemotherapy?

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I work in Urology right now.

Prostate cancer usually gets radiation therapy or removal of the prostate. The radiation is most often used, but for younger men (50s, early 60s) taking out the prostate may be the better solution.

Usually bladder cancer uses surgery to remove tumors and then BCG put into the bladder. If tumors return, you do it again. It’s usually more of a maintenance cancer.

So no, now all cancer needs chemotherapy. It depends on which type and how easy it is to spread throughout the body