There is considerable interest in trying to improve treatments for prostate cancer. New treatment ideas are constantly in the news. Gene therapy, for example, is a promising idea for prostate cancer and over the next years and decades may actually revolutionise treatment. New chemotherapy agents are constantly being tested and new drugs may turnout to be highly effective. Surgical and radiation techniques are continually being improved. Newer techniques such as “intensity modulated radiotherapy” (IMRT) are used increasingly now in hospitals and may in time prove to be better than more conventional forms of radiation.