Provenge is an immunotherapy made from your own immune cells. It's for men with advanced prostate cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy and who have few or no symptoms.
Key points
- It's given in three infusions over about a month.
When should I come in about this?
If “Sipuleucel-T / Provenge: who is a candidate” is the reason you are looking us up, call 678-344-8900 or book online and we will see you at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, or at our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way. A new inability to pass urine, heavy bleeding, or a high fever should go to an emergency department or 911; questions about a named medicine can be booked as a regular visit. We will go over why a drug was mentioned, what monitoring looks like, and how it fits with surgery or radiation options our urologists already discuss at Sandy Springs and Decatur. Bring the prescription or clinic note, recent PSA results, a photo ID, and insurance information if you carry it.
We would like to see you in Sandy Springs
Our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, which has its own surgery center, and our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way are both ready to welcome you. One number books either office: 678-344-8900.
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Further reading
- Read the full answer to this question on advancedurology.com
- Prostate cancer: Advanced Urology overview
How our Sandy Springs urologists think through this question
When someone brings this exact question into our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, it gets a full hearing. Our Sandy Springs urologists give that question the time it deserves. In Sandy Springs our urologists sit with the story you bring, the tests already in hand, and what would actually change the plan, and then we talk about a procedure if one belongs in the discussion. When treatment comes up in Sandy Springs, we stay with what Advanced Urology already offers: medicines Advanced Urology uses for prostate cancer, including options such as sipuleucel-T when a urologist has confirmed it could apply. If a popular option is one we do not offer, we will tell you so at the Sandy Springs visit. These notes are here to get you ready; the Sandy Springs visit is where we fit the plan to you.
What a visit at Sandy Springs is usually like
The first appointment at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road leaves room for you to tell the story in your own words. In that first conversation we ask how long the problem has lasted, what you have already tried, and which medicines you currently take. An exam is often part of that first Sandy Springs visit, and we walk through any urine study or scan before it happens. If a later procedure needs a surgery center, we will tell you whether it is scheduled here at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road or at another Advanced Urology surgery center, and how to prepare. At the desk at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, please have a government-issued identification, insurance information if you carry it, and the names of the medicines you take; old records help, and we can see you even if the file is still coming together.
When to call our team at Sandy Springs about this
Call 678-344-8900 when the question you just read is the one on your mind, or when a test result named here has just arrived. We will get you on the Sandy Springs schedule, or you can use online booking, and we will tell you the earliest opening we can offer. Heavy bleeding, clots that stop you from urinating, a fever with pain in the side or back, or being unable to pass urine at all should be handled in an emergency department or by calling 911, rather than waiting for a routine slot at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road.
A video from Advanced Urology that relates to this topic
If you would like to hear this topic explained by an Advanced Urology physician before you come to Sandy Springs, this official video is a useful place to start.
New Treatments for Localized and Advanced Prostate Cancer with Dr. Vahan Kassabian. Watch on YouTube Lunch and Learn with Dr. Vahan Kassabian about Prostate Cancer. Watch on YouTube
Other reading from Sandy Springs
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled New Treatments for Localized and Advanced Prostate Cancer with Dr. Vahan Kassabian. This Sandy Springs summary stays with that public title and does not add other claims.
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled Lunch and Learn with Dr. Vahan Kassabian about Prostate Cancer. This Sandy Springs summary stays with that public title and does not add other claims.