Prostate Surgery Shows Promise; New Cancer Procedure Lowers Risk of Impotence
2024 My story is in many ways similar to that of Francis Collins, the former Director of the National Institutes of Health, who announced this month that he has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer and will undergo surgery, a radical prostatectomy, to treat the disease. Kevin Cullen,...
A procedure may be used to place a stent into your urethra to hold it open. A stent is a short, tiny mesh tube. A prostatic urethral lift, or UroLift, may be used to hold the prostate away from the urethra. This makes the urethra wider so urine can pass through more easily. Surger...
If you have high blood pressure and BPH, alpha-blockers may be a good option for you because they treat both conditions. If you are planning to have cataract surgery, it’s best to avoid them. They can lead to problems during the procedure. Side effects:Since alpha-blockers affect your ...
A history of prostate radiation therapy or urinary tract surgery A neurological disorder, such as Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis Any type of prostate procedure can cause side effects. Depending on the procedure you choose, complications might include: ...
The year the surgery was performed, disease stage, Gleason score, and PSA were used as covariates. The researchers found no clear evidence of a significant effect of delay to diagnosis on biochemical disease recurrence. For patients treated within 6 months (96%), the odds ratio for each ...
As I am writing this case, one patient told me he had colon cancer and underwent surgery and chemotherapy. He had already spent about RM200,000 ( I am not sure if this figure is corrrect or not. I did not see his medical bills). Many years ago, I knew of a medical doctor who ...
(brachytherapy), hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. Surgery is a common front-line curative approach to non-metastatic cancer in many solid organs, including the prostate. Prostate cancer surgery, or radical prostatectomy, involves the total removal of the prostate gland including seminal ...
Recent data suggest that there is a link between size and eventual bladder retention, and need for surgery. Another use for size estimation is that glands >100 mL may be better treated by retropubic prostatectomy, rather than transurethral resection. TRUS is also not of proven value in the ...
Furthermore, Zou shows that an adaptive lasso procedure is an oracle procedure such that β(Ϩ) (asymptotically) has the following properties. a. It identifies the right subset model and b. It has the optimal estimated rate. Zou then extends these results to the adaptive lasso for ...