The technique here is often used in operations on other tissue—in eye surgery, for example—and now doctors have begun applying it to BPH. It uses a special ultrasound probe that works through an endoscope, a lighted «periscope» used in exploration and treatment of many diseases. The ultrasound targets tissues high in water content, like BPH [...]

Your doctor may want to do these studies if your history or the physical exam suggests that the primary cause of your symptoms—perhaps from a neurologic condition—is bladder dysfunction, not BPH. Cystometry is a means of measuring bladder pressure and function. It’s performed by threading a small catheter into the penis, through the urethra and [...]

A new approach to bone pain has arrived with the development of a compound called radioactive strontium-89—a radioactive isotope that is injected into the body as an outpatient procedure. Strontium-89 is specially tailored for bone pain. Like calcium, it is taken up immediately by bone, as water is absorbed by a sponge—except this compound tends [...]

One day, as new and better drug therapies and combinations are developed, it may be possible to cure prostate cancer at any stage—or at least to restrain it, to make sure that it never leaves the prostate, or that it stays well-differentiated and slow-growing rather than becoming an aggressive, lethal invader of tissue and bone. [...]

PSA GOES UP AFTER SURGERY? You will be given general anesthesia, which means you’ll be unconscious during the procedure. To reach the prostate, surgeons make an incision just above the rectum. The prostate is gradually separated from the rectum, bladder, urethra and vas deferens. The seminal vesicles are removed along with the prostate, and then [...]