Prostate Cancer Treatments

Executive Summary about Prostate Cancer Treatments by Paul Rodgers

It has been said that “most men die with prostate cancer, not of it”. Learn all you want to know about prevention, treatment and living with prostate cancer. Deciding the best prostate cancer treatment is a challenge. All prostate cancer treatments affect sexual potency. Complications from prostate cancer are related to both the disease and its treatment.

Prostate Cancer Treatment

Selecting the right treatment for prostate cancer depends on many factors, including your husband’s overall health, his age, the aggressiveness of his prostate cancer, and how he feels about the potential side effects.

Male Urinary Incontinence

Male incontinence is relatively unusual, and is always associated with some sort of bladder or prostate disease. Yes, more than 330,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, and many will require prostate surgery, the leading cause of incontinence in men.

Muscle-strengthening Exercises

Stress incontinence is a bladder storage problem in which the strength of the muscles (urethral sphincter) that help control urination is reduced. Muscle-strengthening exercises (called Kegel exercises or pelvic floor exercises) can be very helpful in treating bowel incontinence. When the pelvic muscles are contracted they send a message to the bladder muscle to relax.

Biofeedback And Electrical Stimulation

Biofeedback and electrical stimulation may be helpful for those who have trouble doing pelvic muscle training exercises.

Medications

Medications that may be prescribed include drugs that relax the bladder, increase bladder muscle tone, or strengthen the sphincter. Other medications such as diuretics, muscle relaxants, and blood pressure medication can also affect bladder function.

Prostate Cancer New Treatment – There is Hope For Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

Executive Summary about Prostate Cancer Treatments by James Kernal

In July 2008, there was a media frenzy over the new drug “abiraterone” which a clinical study claimed dramatically reduced the size of a prostate tumor and had long term benefits that greatly outweighed any other treatment on the market. As prostate cancer is such a common and deadly disease amongst men it is little wonder there was such intense media coverage of this story.

Abiraterone is a prostate cancer new treatment that works along the same lines as hormone treatments. However, instead of blocking the testicles from generating testosterone the drug blocks the testosterone that is believed to be made by the tumor. This helps because it is now thought the tumor in its late stages actually lives off its own supply of testosterone.

It has been estimated that if the drug is a successful new treatment after a much larger clinical trial it will not be available until 2011.

You may want to check out my other guide on Lung Cancer Symptoms

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