Ways To Treat Prostate Cancer

The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system found below the bladder and in front of the rectum. Once your prostate cancer has been diagnosed, your doctor has a lot to think about before choosing a treatment plan according to your disease stage. It’s important that you also think carefully about each of your choices for treatment plan. You will want to gain the benefits of each treatment option against the possible risks and side effects.

Which treatments are used for prostate cancer?

Depending on each case, treatment options for men with prostate cancer might include:

• Watchful waiting or active surveillance
• Surgery
• Radiation therapy
• Cryotherapy (cryosurgery)
• Hormone therapy
• Chemotherapy
• Vaccine treatment
• Bone-directed treatment

These treatments are generally used one at a time, although in some cases they may be combined.


Which doctors treat prostate cancer?

The main types of doctors who treat prostate cancer include:

Urologists: surgeons who treat diseases of the urinary system and male reproductive system (including the prostate)
Radiation oncologists: doctors who treat cancer with radiation therapy
Medical oncologists: doctors who treat cancer with medicines such as chemotherapy or hormone therapy

There is a well known urologist expert Dr. Anshumaan V Kapoor in North India with an experience of 14 years.

Help getting through treatment

Your cancer care team will be your first source of information and support, but there are other resources for help when you need it. Hospital- or clinic-based support services are an important part of your care. These might include nursing or social work services, financial aid, nutritional advice, rehab services, or spiritual help. There is still some uncertainty about the exact right therapies for many men, and whether some even need immediate therapy.

Urological Differences Between Men and Women

Urology has become one of the growing fields of medical and research science. Catheterization and continence are the two urology aspects which are affecting million of people in all over the world every day. The urological system of women’s and men’s are very much different and the symptoms and causes are based on personal anatomy.

The functioning way of urinary catheters of men and women is mostly the same to drain the urine from the bladder, but the design of the catheter is very different in both men and women. In men, a urinary catheter is inserted through men’s personal part, but in women, the catheter application is based on bladder position which changes every time with obesity, age, childbirth etc.

Incontinence is the inability to control urinary function. These types of incontinence vary between women and men. If the urinary incontinence is not normal, then it is symptomatic of urological issue.

Gender Based Common Types of Incontinence and Reason are:

Stress Incontinence: This is the most common types of urological problem found in women. These generally occur during childbirth or pregnancy. This problem leads to weak pelvic muscles and put external pressure on the bladder. When the pressure goes to the bladder during running, sneezing, laughing and coughing, it leads to leakage of urine from the bladder.

Urge Incontinence: Overactive bladder is known as urge incontinence. There are many reasons behind this like cancer in uterus, strokes, prostate, urological nerve damage and bladder inflammation are the little one. In this problem, the patient feels to urgent need to urinate or not able to urinate.

Mixed Incontinence: Mixed incontinence means the combination of both stress and urge incontinence. Its symptoms lies under both incontinence forms.

Temporary Incontinence: The type of incontinence is occurred due to fewer medical treatment, medication, surgery and infection, but this problem has been solved within a short period.

Overflow Incontinence: This type of incontinence problem occurs when someone not able to empty the bladder. They always feel to urinate within a short period of time. This has happened due to weak bladder muscles, kidney stone problem and if a person having kidney stones. The common cause of overflow incontinence in men is due to blocking of urethral and enlarged prostate, which affects the person when they are over the age of 50.

Every incontinence problem mentioned here can be treated. But for that a person need to consult with a doctor. He/she should not hesitate while concerning with the urological doctor and start taking medical treatment according to doctor prescription. Otherwise, these problems can lead a person to death if not solved at the starting age.