Prostate cancer does not necessarily need surgery

Surgery is a commonly used treatment for prostate tumors, but can remove the irritating agent but reduce the quality of life, even cause impotence. The new trend is currently dosing.

Prostate tumor "squeezes" the bladder neck (Photo: SK & DS / VNE)

Prostate fibroids (benign prostatic hyperplasia) are very common in middle-aged men and older, ranking second in urinary diseases (after stones). At the age of fifty, about 50% of men are ill; This rate increased to 70% at the age of weeks and more than 90% at the age on the weekly bowl. More than half of patients suffer from urinary disorders so much that they need to be treated.

The prostate gland is located in the bladder neck, when hypertrophy compresses the bladder and impedes urination . On the other hand, this route has a nervous system that automatically causes contractions when stimulated and a lot of alpha receptors have a strong contraction effect on smooth muscles. When fibroids are not large enough to clog the urinary tract, the prostate gland has reflexes and obstruction of the urinary tract. The gentlemen who had urination, urinary retention, and urine surplus increased, leading to urinary tract infections, bladder stones, bladder hypertrophy, pyelonephritis .

Influence of disease makes 58% of men have to limit their use of drinks before going away; 40% limit participation in watching movies and arts; 62% avoid places where there are no toilets . Most of them cannot sit in cars continuously for more than 2 hours, limiting outdoor sports activities, not daring to drink water before going to sleep, sleep full .

Prostate cancer is a disease known since ancient times , when treatment is based entirely on herbal medicines. Up to now, some drugs are still studied as tadenan, permixon .

In the 1960s, thanks to the advancement of the surgical industry, the treatment was mainly surgical. By the end of the last century, people again preferred laparoscopic surgery and considered this as an appropriate measure to solve a benign tumor, which is always removed. But it is clear that creature does not leave any part of the body. Cut u is done but not finished.

There are some other methods such as placing the ball to dilate the urinary tract (currently rarely used), using heat pressure microwaves in the prostate gland or using a laser to evaporate, freezing and causing necrosis of the insertion into the sugar. Urinary incontinence through the urethra . These methods all affect the quality of life. After removal of prostate fibroids, about 70% of men do not have ejaculation, losing pleasure.

The current treatment trend is to use drugs, the aim is to improve the quality of life, not much attention to the size of the tumor. In Italy, the use of drugs increased 5 times. In the United States, the Urology Association recommends treatment of alpha (carduran) antipyretics, smooth muscle spasms in the prostate and bladder neck, clears the urinary tract, and improves maximum urinary flow rate.

Doctor Bui Nguyen Kiem , Health & Life