Palliative therapy is given to relieve the symptoms caused by advanced prostate cancer. It does not alter the course of prostate cancer but can improve your quality of life. For example, transurethral resection of the prostate may be used as palliative therapy in advanced prostate cancer, to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer.

Palliative therapy may also include the use of various drugs e.g. LHRHa’s and pain killers, to relieve symptoms.