A very common concern for men affected by prostate cancer is whether they will still be able to function sexually after treatment. Nowadays, medical science offers new, less radical treatments for prostate cancer that allow the patient to live a satisfying life, the quality of which may not be affected by the disease overall. Prostate cancer today does not necessarily mean the end of an intimate life or the end of manhood.
For a high percentage of patients, the time between the detection of prostate cancer and the time when the disease can cause the patient problems is quite long. In cases where doctors catch the tumour at an early stage, they may even resort to just monitoring and monitoring the patient’s condition. Thus, the disease may not have any effect on the patient and his or her overall, including sexual life, for many years.
Other complications of prostate cancer treatment also include incontinence, i.e. the inability to hold urine. As far as this complication after treatment is concerned, it always depends on the stage at which the disease was detected, what treatment you have chosen, and in the case of surgery, it also depends on the experience of the surgeon and the method of surgery chosen.
While up to 15% of patients suffer from spontaneous urine leakage after surgery (complete removal of the prostate), this complication occurs in about 2-3% of patients with conventional radiation.
In the case of proton therapy, the risk of incontinence is minimised to only 1% if the disease is detected at an early stage.
While it is true that prostate cancer is most common in older men, and the risk of prostate cancer rises rapidly after the age of 60, this by no means instruments that younger men are out of danger. If you are concerned, ask your doctor if it would be appropriate to get screened earlier. Always get tested, and go for regular preventive check-ups after age 40 if the disease has been diagnosed in any male relative of yours.
If your doctor confirms prostate cancer, he or she will also offer you a treatment strategy. Therefore, think carefully and ask the doctor about everything that concerns you. It is not true that you have to make a decision immediately. Your overall chances of being cured depend primarily on the stage at which you were diagnosed with prostate cancer. You must remember that your decision about the type of treatment you undergo will significantly affect your future life.
Prostate cancer does not show any clear clinical signs in the early stages, so you will not have any problems for a long time. Prevention is therefore the only effective remedy. Every man should regularly visit a urologist. Do not therefore underestimate preventive examinations, after the age of fifty, it should be an absolute matter of course. Early diagnosis is revealed to doctors by the PSA test, which is an examination of the level of prostate-specific antigen.
The fact that you have an elevated PSA level does not necessarily mean that you have prostate cancer. And on the other hand, a low PSA level can’t 100% guarantee that you don’t have the disease.
An elevated PSA level can be caused by a number of other health problems, such as prostatitis, infections, benign prostate enlargement and other easily treatable ailments. If your test comes out positive in this sense, doctors will perform further tests to uncover the cause, with prostate cancer being just one possible explanation.
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