Posted on September 3, 2015 by Sitemaster
What is described as an open-label, multi-center, single-arm study (the ADRESU trial) has opened in Japan to evaluate the efficacy and safety of periurethral injection of autologous adipose-derived regenerative cells (ADRCs) for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence resulting from radical prostatectomy (or from transurethral resction of the prostate). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cell, Cytori, incontinence, therapy, trial | Leave a comment »
Posted on April 13, 2015 by Sitemaster
A new review article by a Danish research team in the Journal of Sexual Medicine has (arguably) brought a degree of clarity to what the authors refer to as “neglected” side effects consequent to radical prostatectomy. Unfortunately the average urologist probably doesn’t read the Journal of Sexual Medicine on a regular basis. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: incontinence, prostatectomy, radical, sexual, side effects, urinary | 6 Comments »
Posted on January 21, 2015 by Sitemaster
Credit where credit is due. … Our friends at The Daily Mail in England have actually come up with some prostate cancer-related news worth passing on! … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: cell, fat, incontinence, stem, Treatment, urinary | 6 Comments »
Posted on January 12, 2014 by Sitemaster
We have already mentioned the article on genomics and biomarkers in this month’s issue of AUA News, but there are two other articles in this issue of the publication that are likely to be of interest to at least some of our regular readers. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: dysfunction, erectile, incontinence, prostatectomy, sexual, side effect, surgery | Leave a comment »
Posted on July 2, 2012 by Sitemaster
A study just published in the Journal of Urology has suggested that (at least among patients in Ontario, Canada) one in every 20 men who undergo radical prostatectomy (RP) for treatment of localized prostate cancer will — within the following 15 years — require subsequent placement of an artificial urinary sphincter or a urinary sling. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: artificial sphincter, incontinence, surgery, urinary sling | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 22, 2011 by Sitemaster
A new paper published by researchers from Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Institute and related institutions makes it increasingly clear that — to date — we haven’t been able to work out (let alone consistently use) a really good way to measure real urinary continence after radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: accuracy, continence, incontinence, measurement | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 5, 2011 by Sitemaster
It is sometimes amazing how little some physicians appear to understand about the side effects of the treatments that they give to their patients! If these were really rare side effects it might be understandable, but the one we shall discuss below is far from rare … … READ MORE …
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: climacturia, incontinence, radical prostatectomy, sexual activity, surgery | 17 Comments »
Posted on July 22, 2011 by Sitemaster
A new study just published in The Lancet has reported that — among men who have urinary incontinence 6 weeks after a radical prostatectomy (RP) — formal one-on-one training of patients by expert therapists does not in fact reduce the rate of continence at 12 months compared to patients in a control group. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: continence, exercises, incontinence, Kegel, outcome, radical prostatectomy, randomized, training, trial | 4 Comments »
Posted on June 14, 2011 by Sitemaster
Let us be clear up front … Duloxetine (Cymbalta®) has not been approved anywhere in the world that we are aware of as a treatment for post-surgical incontinence in men treated for prostate cancer, and there has never been a large, randomized, double-blind Phase III trial to try to demonstrate such activity. … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 8, 2011 by Sitemaster
A new analysis of data from a large, consecutive series of Swedish patients suggests a very strong correlation between age at time of radical prostatectomy and risk for significant, long-term urinary leakage. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: age, education, incontinence, radical prostatectomy, risk | Leave a comment »
Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sitemaster
We are coming to the conclusion that there is a deep divide between how some surgeons think about post-surgical incontinence following radical prostatectomy for their prostate cancer and how patients may think about such incontinence when defined by exactly the same set of clinical symptoms and quality of life issues. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: continence, incontinence, laparoscopic, prostatectomy, RALP, robot-assisted, surgery | Leave a comment »
Posted on December 27, 2010 by Sitemaster
In July this year, we commented on the 14-year mortality data published by Hugosson et al. from the randomized, population-based, prostate cancer screening trial initiated in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1995. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: erectile dysfunction, incontinence, morbidity, radical prostatectomy, screening, side effects | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 26, 2010 by Sitemaster
Duloxetine (Cymbalta®) is a drug that is approved in the USA for the treatment of depression, anxiety disorder, and certain specific types of pain. However, there are also data showing that it can be effective in the management of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: duloxetine, incontinence, radical prostatectomy | Leave a comment »
Posted on May 24, 2009 by Sitemaster
A group of German researchers has developed a method to predict the duration of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy based on potential risk factors. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: continence, incontinence, post-surgery, time | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 3, 2009 by Sitemaster
THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK 