Surgery Helps With Prostate Cancer, Sometimes
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostatectomy | No Comments »The latest update from a European study that has followed men with prostate cancer for more than a decade leaves the debate about the advantages of aggressive treatment versus "watchful waiting" undecided. The advantage in survival seen for men who underwent ...
Options In Prostate Cancer Surgery: Perineal Prostatectomy In The Age Of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »In the age of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy has been associated with a substantial increase in operative costs without a significant improvement in outcomes to date. As a result, there has been renewed interest in ...
Salvage Options For Biochemical Recurrence After Primary Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Despite excellent success rates with radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer, a significant number of patients will experience a rise in their serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level. A variety of salvage options in this scenario have ...
Study Confirms That Levitra® On Demand Is Effective In Patients With ED After Nerve-sparing Prostatectomy
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A study published in the European Urology journal demonstrated that Levitra® (vardenafil, HCI) is highly efficacious in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) even shortly after radical nerve-sparing prostatectomy. This landmark study conducted by Bayer Schering Pharma was a double-blind, randomized, ...
Soon Prostate Cancer Surgery Don’t Lead to Incontinence
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »According to statistics, about 20% of men who underwent prostate surgery developed urinary incontinence postoperatively, with some of them continuing to have problems more than a year later. Because the proximal sphincter is sometimes removed during prostatectomy, urinary continence depends on the ...
Fertility Issues In Patients With Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »PSA screening helps doctors to detect prostate cancer (CaP) in men at younger ages. In the online issue of the BJU International, a research team from Norway address the issues of fertility as related to prostate cancer therapies.In Norway, the ...
Sexual Life After Prostate Removal
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »One of the most feared side effects of therapy for prostate cancer is the impact on sexual health. According to National Cancer Institute in US, about 219.000 men have been diagnosed prostate cancer every year and almost a half of ...
Study Indicates Certain Men Benefit from Salvage Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy
Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »In the June 18, 2008 edition of JAMA, Dr. Bruce Trock and associates reported on prostate cancer (CaP) specific survival following salvage radiotherapy (XRT) vs. observation in men with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP). They found a benefit to ...
Freezing sperm and eggs gives young prostate cancer patients a hope
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate chemotherapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »When a man hears the diagnosis prostate cancer, surgery needed, he is crushed that the treatment would destroy his ability to have more children. Statistics show a growing number of young cancer patients freezing sperm and eggs in case surgery, chemotherapy ...
Radiation treatment for cancer after radical prostatectomy linked with increased survival
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Preliminary findings indicate that for men who underwent radical prostatectomy, radiation treatment after prostate cancer recurrence was associated with an increase in prostate cancer-related survival, according to a study in the June 18 issue of JAMA. more about radiotherapy for cancer ...