Survey suggests high level of long-term side effects after treatment for prostate cancer
Monday, October 31st, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A recent survey in Michigan revealed that some 70 percent of prostate cancer patients involved reported long-term, treatment-related, adverse effects after first-line treatment with surgery or radiation therapy. Survey conclusion was presented at the Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting ongoing ...
New approach to reduce incontinence after prostate cancer surgery
Friday, October 28th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Thanks to research underway at the Indiana University School of Medicine, men who undergo radical prostate surgery in the future may encounter fewer issues with incontinence This is the first study to test whether patients will benefit from having a biodegradable ...
Is surgery appropriate for men with high-risk prostate cancer?
Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A new article published in Therapeutic Advances in Urology in August suggests strong arguments in favor of surgery alone as an appropriate type of treatment for men with localized prostate cancer, especially when it is confined to the prostate and ...
Model helpful in predicting erectile function after prostate cancer treatment
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A recent research published in the September 21 issue of JAMA, suggest that for men who suffer from prostate cancer, the development of prediction models based on variables, such as pretreatment sexual function, patient characteristics and treatment factors, seems to ...
Risks of radical prostate cancer surgery
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Acording to a Florida urologist, many surgical disciplines have come to grips with the significant complications associated with radical cancer surgery and have modified their approach to cancer excision. For example, surgery for breast cancer has moved away from a ...
Robotic surgery may be best option to treat prostate cancer
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Surgery for prostate cancer (radical prostatectomy) involves removing the prostate gland and adjacent seminal vesicles, as well as pelvic lymph nodes depending upon the patient’s risk. Surgery offers the knowledge that the cancer has been removed with confirmation by a ...
Incontinence After Prostate Surgery
Thursday, September 1st, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »The method of radical prostatectomy and the surgeon chosen have a significant impact on a patient's results. Men have three surgical choices for the removal of their prostate: open prostatectomy, during which the surgeon removes the prostate in a traditional ...
The role of radical prostatectomy in older males with high-risk prostate cancer
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Data reported earlier this year have shown that the surgical treatment of prostate cancer in the patients enrolled in trials showed no median prostate-cancer specific or overall survival benefit compared to watchful waiting in patients over 65 years of age. However, ...
Robotic surgery maintains sexual sunction after prostate cancer surgery
Sunday, August 28th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »For most men, sexual function is equally as important as eliminating prostate cancer. Many of their fears about sex after surgery are carry-overs from what they know of older open and laparoscopic prostatectomy techniques. Thanks to robotic surgery, these fears ...
Sex after prostate surgery
Friday, August 19th, 2011 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »For most men, sexual function is every bit as important as eliminating prostate cancer. But many of their fears about sex after surgery are carry-overs from what they know of older open and laparoscopic prostatectomy techniques. Often, a man's ability to ...