Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Tissue don't heal well if you go a cuttin on it after radiation. Think incontinence and scarring if you do a procedure on a prostate that has been treated with seeds or external beam radiation. You can fix obstructive voiding symptoms before radiation by conventional methods but after radiation treatment is fraught with complications. It …
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I think there are some pretty unhappy and angry people on both sides. If you got the "rare complication" of either treatment you wish you'd done the other! If you do bad with surgery you blame the urologist. If you do bad with the radiation you blame the radiation. Big difference.😳
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Kinda like the anatomy of a female huh?
That which associated with activity is stress incontinence and usually is corrected with surgery. Urgency incontinence is associated with overactive bladder and this improves with diet and medicines.
Not only to determine if cancer is present but to see if it is the good kind or bad kind.
http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/xgfyyv/prostatenodule.mp3 The Real Prostate Cancer Second Opinion-Illustrated "Factors to consider" in your treatment decision-making process. I had my biopsy done by a partner during lunch. I took an antibiotic and nothing for pain. My partner did attempt a prostate block but it did not work. He took about 16 samples and it lasted about 20 minutes. …
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