The prostate or prostatectomy surgery is necessary, in the absence of a less aggressive, in the following situations:

1.To restore or improve lost or impaired function is to improve the quality of life
2.To increase the chances of life expectancy

In the first case is when the prostate grows in a way that prevents the normal flow of urine causing urinary retention, urinary incontinence, repeated infections, hydronephrosis, etc. and there is no evidence of cancer. In these cases it may be required transurethral prostatectomy, which is the most frequent surgery. There are other treatment options according the result of the CMP – Prostate

In the second case is when prostate cancer is established, directly or indirectly, and after evaluating all the factors that compromise the results of surgery such as age, tumor size, metastasis, sexual activity, patient preference, ability to get the results expected. Radical prostatectomy, which requires opening the abdomen result in urinary incontinence and impotence.

To get an accurate idea of the need for prostatectomy is the best test CMP – Prostate preceded by the PSA. Digital rectal examination is limited to assessing the consistency and relative size of the back of the prostate that is in contact with the rectum (see chart below).

Prostate surgery has side effects and complications, according to the patient, type of surgery and surgical complications remain the main urinary incontinence and impotence. There are also the complications of any surgery such as bleeding, infection and adverse effects and complications of anesthesia.

Naturally it is essential to an overall assessment of the body before surgery, to determine the benefits they bring surgery and the risk of it. . Remember that the more prevention to be, better get your surgeon.

Surgery for prostate cancer has two techniques: retropubic and perineal radical and, except as a palliative in patients who are very elderly or very sick, while surgery for prostatic hypertrophy is conservative and only is extracted from the prostate, thus side effects will be smaller in the latter.

Prostate Surgery: Traditional or Laparoscopic?

Science and medicine has advanced greatly in recent years, research and large companies increasingly invest money in creating new remedies as well as equipment and techniques to cure specific diseases, but new developments are better than traditional techniques?

According to research conducted by the Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettetions in New York, United States, the laparoscopic technique with help of a robot, would not provide better results than traditional surgery to treat prostate cancer.

In the prior art, to remove the prostate gland cancer, it must make an incision in the abdomen of 15 cm with the laparoscopic technique, several incisions are made in the patient’s abdominal area in order to introduce the means to make such surgery is also a camera.

But it offered no data studies very different in what concerns the death rate of patients or postoperative complications, the patient always has the option of selecting which method is preferred