Prostate Cancer

BPH means benign prostatic hyperplasia, and it’s an affection of the prostate. There are some treatment options, which help men to reduce the discomfort provoked by BPH. The treatment is in function of every symptom, and it is under the observation of a doctor. There are several kinds of treatments.

Some of treatments are behavioral therapies, medications, minimally invasive therapies and transurethral resection of the prostate. Behavioral therapies can help men to avoid surgery, and implies diets. The conservative options are tried before surgery in most cases, several medications helping the bladder to relax and making the prostate to start shrinking and rescue the men from the surgery; these are alpha-blockers which are helping the muscles to relax and finasteride or dutasteride which shrinks the prostate gland. Every medication has its effects but combined theses drugs are more beneficial. These are only some of the treatment.

Other treatments are invasive therapies, therapies with similar side effects, but it's not been removed the tissue. Men with no severe symptoms by severe BPH symptoms are often willing to accept this to avoid hospitalization and the chance of more serious complications. Appeared in today’s therapies microwave thermal therapy, known as transurethral microwave thermotherapy or TUMT, which is an outpatient procedure that takes only one hour. A tiny antenna is inserted into the urethra with the aid of a urinary catheter, the antenna delivering microwaves, their heat destroying the ill tissues. Beside those techniques exists needle ablation. Transurethral needle ablation named TUNA also uses radio frequency energy, and unlike microwave thermal therapy, this requires some anesthesia, or pelvic blocks, a spinal anesthetic, or a general anesthetic. In indigo laser therapy, the laser energy is delivered through a needle to the turn of the prostate, this minimally invasive BPH treatment being done in the outpatient surgery department under sedation or light anesthesia and the laser destroys prostate cells, which are sloughed off during healing, because the central urethra is not treated, significant bleeding rarely occurs during this process. A number of laser therapy procedures have been developed to treat BPH, high-energy laser therapy, which vaporizes overgrown prostate tissue, often being used to provide more immediate relief of the symptoms and so the patient recovers quickly. Transurethral resection of the prostate, shortly named TURP has been the gold standard for surgical treatment of BPH for many years and it remains a very effective treatment for patients who retain urine and have moderate to severe symptoms, but in this procedure a surgeon threads a narrow instrument into the urethra and uses small cutting tools to scrape away excess prostate tissue, unfortunately patients have to stay in the hospital for one to three days after surgery. But yet, it’s the most reliable treatment in the opinion of some doctors.

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