Prostate Cancer. Sex After Prostate Surgery - Well Blog - NYTimes.com#comment-173. For men facing prostate cancer, their first worry is about dying. Often, their second worry is whether the treatment will kill their sex life. But men researching the odds encounter a myriad of confusing information. Depending on what study you read, you might read that anywhere from 30 percent to 97 percent of men return to potency after prostate cancer surgery.
But as my Well column in Tuesday’s Science Times explains, the chance of a normal sex life after surgery depends on a number of variables. A man’s sex life before surgery, whether he has a supportive partner, the stage of his cancer, and even how a surgeon defines potency all will influence the odds he is given by his doctor. Have you or someone you care about had surgery for prostate cancer? June 2003 - Report: Reducing Prostate Cancer Deaths. LE Magazine June 2003 Reducing Prostate Cancer DeathsThrough Prevention and Early Diagnosis by Stephen B. Strum, M.D.Medical Oncologist Specializing in Prostate CancerCo-Founder and First Medical Director of the Prostate Cancer Research Institute Fifteen years ago, before the advent of the PSA, men were diagnosed with prostate cancer either due to abnormalities on the digital rectal exam (DRE) or due to other laboratory or radiology findings reflecting advanced cancer.
The medical means to pick up smaller amounts of prostate cancer (PC) simply were not available. This is a common dilemma in the world of cancer medicine: how do you detect the disease early, before it has spread? Deaths caused by PC can be significantly reduced through incorporation of a DRE (Digital Rectal Exam) and a simple blood test for PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) as part of your yearly physical examination. PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) Tumor cells make many kinds of proteins. DRE (Digital Rectal Exam) Quosa | The total solution for efficiently managing and monitori. Life Quality After Prostate Cancer. Neglected Side Effects Predict Satisfaction With Prostate Cancer Treatment Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. March 19, 2008 -- Side effects men rarely think about before prostate cancer treatment have huge effects on their after-treatment quality of life.
The finding comes from a study of 1,201 men -- and 625 of their spouses or life partners -- before and after they received different treatments for prostate cancer at nine different high-quality hospitals. All the treatments were successful in that none of the men died from prostate cancer or from the treatment. But not all of the men, or their life partners, were happy with the side effects they experienced after treatment.
More neglected symptoms -- related to urinary obstruction or to "vitality" -- were equally disturbing, found Martin G. Continue reading below... Prostate Cancer Treatment Risks Differ. Prostate cancer blog: From MedicineWorld.Org. April 29, 2011, 8:36 AM CT MRI locates prostate cancer recurrence A pelvic MRI scan with IV contrast and rectal balloon is highly effective in identifying local recurrence even at low PSA values in patients with prostate cancer with a rising or persistently elevated PSA after prostatectomy, as per a research studypresented April 29, 2011, at the Cancer Imaging and Radiation Therapy Symposium in Atlanta.
The symposium is co-sponsored by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Scientists at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston reviewed 389 postprostatectomy patients treated between January 2004 and October 2010, with 143 receiving a pelvic MRI to determine if cancer cells were still present in the area of the surgical bed.
The study showed that about one-third of patients with a biopsy-proven recurrence after suspicious MRI finding had a PSA of less than 1, with several having a PSA as low as 0.3. April 7, 2011, 8:43 AM CT. Benefits of Zyflamend in the early treatment of prostate cancer, Welcome. Call-in Show. Prostate Pointers. Prostate Cancer Survivors.