Archives: 2008 April

Patients with BPH may need removal of the enlarged part of the prostate by surgical methods. It is normally the best long-term solution for some patients with BPH. This surgery only removes the portion of the prostate gland that is pressing against the urethra tube. The rest of the gland is left intact as well [...]

Popularity: 32% [?]

If your prostate is too large, your doctor may recommend surgical treatment. Surgery can be done through the urethra tube or done with open surgery. Open surgery requires a cutting through the skin above the base of the penis. The most often used surgery is called TURP, transurethral resection of the prostate. During this surgery [...]

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If you have recently learned you have prostate cancer you know that your life will be completely turned around. Your life and the lives of your family will change and these changes may be hard for you and your family and friends to handle. You will have many different feelings, as your family will. You [...]

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The exact cause of prostate cancer has not yet been discovered. No one can explain why one man develops prostate problems and cancer and the other man does not. Prostate cancer cannot be “caught” from another person. Cancer is not contagious. There are some risk factors that make it more likely for some men to [...]

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The term prostatitis covers four prostate disorders, acute bacterial prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis. Prostatitis accounts for one fourth of all office visits by young and middle-aged men with genital and urinary problems.
Acute bacterial prostatitis, one of the four types of prostate disorders, is the least common [...]

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Following is a basic breakdown of the most common ailments affecting the prostate gland. Since many of these conditions share symptoms and in some cases treatment as well, it can be difficult to even attempt self-diagnosis of a prostate condition. Hopefully this guide will allow you to easily compare and contrast symptoms of the different [...]

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Prostate conditions are a huge problem that has an impact of a colossal scale. You may not be aware, but thousands upon thousand of men across the globe become impotent and die every year from prostate problems.
What is it that causes these deaths?
Well most of these are caused by prostate cancer, but the main reason [...]

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A large proportion of men will suffer with a form of prostate problem in their lifetime; it is granted that the majority of these will be in their twilight years; even so it is not a nice experience.
As many men will agree, we all have an added attachment to our sexual organs than any other, [...]

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The prostate is a great little gland about the size of a full size walnut that is only found in the male of the Homo sapien species (human beings) and produces the fluid carrying sperm during ejaculation.
There are great deals of problems that can occur in the prostate, although the likelihood of this happening is [...]

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The prostate is part of a male’s pride and joy, his sexual organ. Most males have a special attachment to their penis and other parts of the sexual experience that makes them fear any kind of condition to this part of the body more than any other.
But what is the prostate?
The prostate is a gland [...]

Popularity: 28% [?]