Increase seen in use of new technologies for prostate cancer treatment

Over the past decade several advanced technologies have promised to minimize the side effects of treating prostate cancer.

Restaurant owner Sandy Schondelmayer has prostate cancer. For now, he only has minor symptoms of the disease.

“I can deal with my minor symptoms now, and I don't want to take the risk of the side effects from surgery,” Schondelmayer said.

"The idea is you can give higher doses to the prostate and the cancer without necessarily affecting the surrounding tissues as much,” Hollenbeck said.

“It has the potential to sort of amplify the financial implications for the U.S. health care system,” Hollenbeck said.

"I keep myself in shape, I try to watch my diet, and I thought maybe I'll be lucky and live into the 90s,” Schondelmayer said. “The cancer part does not change that outlook."