NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While oxybutynin is often used prophylactically to reduce irritative urinary symptoms related to intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy for bladder cancer, it actually…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Complete bladder neck preservation during radical prostatectomy improves the rate of urinary continence subsequently, a German team reports. Furthermore, the strategy is associated…
Richard Sadovsky, MD, explains the symptoms and causes behind hypogonadism, which can occur when testosterone production is reduced in men. Usually a condition seen in older men, hypogonadism is…
What are the different treatments for hypogonadism in men? Richard Sadovsky, MD, goes over various options to increase testosterone levels, ranging from injectables to topical gels. He also discusses the side-effects…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravesical bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy for bladder cancer is associated with eradication of uropathogens in patients not taking antibiotics, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to open radical prostatectomy in patients with recurrent prostate cancer after failed primary therapy, robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy “is an attractive alternative”, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The theoretical advantage of a retrograde rather than antegrade approach to nerve sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been confirmed in a…
How has the nature of chemotherapy and prostate cancer evolved? Janna Andrews, MD, explains that historically, there were not many options for patients who became resistant to androgen deprivation therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients undergoing a transrectal prostate biopsy, a pelvic plexus block (PPB) is more effective than a periprostatic nerve block for controlling pain,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sterile urine before undergoing shock wave lithotripsy can forgo antibiotic prophylaxis, according to the results of a meta-analysis reported in the…