Will treatment of Prostate Cancer affect my sex life?

2007-02-18T15:03:00.000-08:00

Will I be an impotence?

This is the most men with prostate cancer question, about treatment the cancer. They afraid the treatment will make them be impotence, it means a man will not be able to have an erection.

But the first is, what is prostate cancer? Prostate cancer is the abnormal growth of a cell in prostate gland. This disease find in the common man with older than 65 years old.

What causes prostate cancer? Experts don’t know what causes prostate cancer, but it believe that, the age, family history, diet, obesity, eating a high fat food and race affect to getting this disease.

What are the symptom to know a prostate cancer? In the arly stages this disease usuallt don’t causes symptom, but the most symptom that found is :

Having difficulty starting your urine stream.
Having a weaker-than-normal urine stream.
Being unable to urinate at all.
Having to urinate often.
Feeling that your bladder is not emptying completely when you urinate.
Having to get up at night to urinate.
Having pain or a burning feeling when you urinate.
Having blood in your urine.
Having a deep pain in your lower back, abdomen, hip, or pelvis.

How to diagnosed this disease? The only one to make it a valid diagnosed is to take sample of tissue from a man prostate gland that suspect have a prostate cancer.

The treatment of prostate cancer is different from one to another, the treatment is depending the stage of the cancer and the spread of the cancer.

And What is the affect the treatment of prostate cancer to a patient / a man?

Both surgery and radiation may cause impotence. Nerves that help control a man's ability to have an erection may be removed or damaged during surgery because they are right next to the prostate and the cancer may have spread to them. Many times a special form of surgery, called nerve-sparing surgery, can be used to try to avoid damaging the nerves. These same nerves can also be damaged by the X-rays that are used in radiation therapy.

Drugs and mechanical aids are available to help men who are impotent. Many men recover their ability to have an erection several months or years after surgery.

10 FACTS ABOUT CANCER

2007-01-28T05:30:00.000-08:00

There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.

In 2005, 7.6 million people died of cancer - 13% of the 58 million deaths worldwide.
More than 70% of all cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries.

Worldwide, the 5 most common types of cancer that kill men are (in order of frequency): lung, stomach, liver, colorectal and oesophagus.
Worldwide, the 5 most common types of cancer that kill women are (in the order of frequency): breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical.
Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world.

One fifth of all cancers worldwide are caused by a chronic infection, for example human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer and hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes liver cancer.

A third of cancers could be cured if detected early and treated adequately.

All patients in need of pain relief could be helped if current knowledge about pain control and palliative care were applied.

40% of cancer could be prevented, mainly by not using tobacco, having a healthy diet, being physically active and preventing infections that may cause cancer.

source : www.who.int

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Will treatment of Prostate Cancer affect my sex life?

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