Newswise — Thousands of men facing surgical removal of the prostate due to cancer may someday have one less thing to worry about: post-surgical urinary incontinence. That's because a team of expert ...

Prostate cancer treatments are very effective. The five-year survival rate for an early-stage cancer is now over 99 percent. Yet these treatments leave behind side effects. Urinary incontinence, which ...

For men facing a prostatectomy or working through recovery from prostate surgery or radiation, pelvic floor training is increasingly showing up as part of the roadmap back to bladder control and ...

BALTIMORE, June 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Urological Association (AUA), in partnership with the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS) and the Society of ...

Up to 72% of patients with prostate cancer who undergo radical prostatectomy experience urinary incontinence in the first 3 months after surgery. Up to 72% of patients experience urinary incontinence ...

Receiving radiotherapy after prostatectomy does negatively affect long-term health-related quality of life, including sexual function, urinary incontinence, and urinary irritation, but the timing of ...

Men with prostate cancer face different long-term risks depending on whether they choose surgery or radiation therapy, with ...

Electroacupuncture targeting the sacral nerve may promote early return of urinary continence after nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. Electroacupuncture to the Ciliao, Zhongliao, and Xialiao ...

Measuring the length of a patient’s membranous urethra before holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) for benign prostatic hyperplasia could help predict if they will experience urinary ...