Prostate Cancer

From anatomical point of view, the prostate is located just bellow the bladder, and is an integral part of the male reproductive system. Statistics show us that over 80% of men over 40 years experience problems with the prostate, and with urination because of the enlarged prostate. The pressure of the enlarged prostate on the urethra creates some problems such increasing the fervency of urination, the urgent need to urinate, difficulty in starting to urinate, the need to urinate in the night, reduced force of the urine stream, dribbling, the incapability to empty the bladder, and in the final inability to urinate. Shrinking the enlarged prostate can be done through different treatments.

Treatments for shrinking enlarged prostate can be urgent care, self care, drug therapy, surgery, exercises and natural methods. The urgent care is for the patients, who can’t urinate at all, caused by cold temperature, period of immobility extended, overdose of alcohol, and it’s done in the emergency room through catheterizing or through decongestants drugs; self care is the best, if you are presenting enlarged prostate you should avoid drinking alcohol, caffeine, eating spicy food; drug therapy made under the guidance of the doctor; surgery is made when the drug therapy doesn’t work or it’s too late for it; exercises such as Kegel exercises for improving the blood circulation; natural methods are composed by natural herbs and minerals, like palmetto, large dozes of zinc, natural healing foods in the patient’s diet. But in most cases are not necessary treatments, often called “watchful waiting, used in compliant symptoms. From all these treatments, some of them are better.

A variety of treatments are viable, depending by your symptoms. The conservative options are tried before surgery in most cases, several medications helping the bladder to relax and making the prostate to start shrinking. But from time to time you should go to doctor for medical exams. If the medication doesn’t work, the viable option is surgery. To shrink enlarged prostate or benign prostate hyperplasia are two methods of surgery: Transurethral electro-resection of the prostate or shortly TURP and Transurethral electro-vaporization of the prostate or shortly TUEVAP. Transurethral electro-resection of the prostate is the traditional surgery through is removed the tissue using minimum surgical techniques and requires one or two days of hospitalization. Transurethral electro-vaporization of the prostate uses electrical current in a roller ball to heat the prostate’s tissue until it’s reduced until a vapor and the patient doesn’t need hospitalization. Other surgical methods modify the tissue which blocks the urethra.

Following any of the known procedures, the operated men will need to be monitored with regularity. Those tests are done by the urologists and the tissue is checked to see if the cancer cells are hidden or appear. But usually, it’s not so and no treatment is needed, only the self care.

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