| Post-Prostatectomy Rehabilitation Improves Men's Natural Sexual ...
This year doctors will diagnose nearly 219,000 men with prostate cancer. Many will undergo radical prostatectomy surgery. While radical prostatectomy provides an excellent cure, impotence (erectile dysfunction) is a common side effect. However early, postoperative penile rehabilitation can speed prostatectomy patients' healing, achieve natural erectile function and improve their quality of life.Studies show that even 24 months after prostate cancer treatment sexual dysfunction was the most important quality of life issue. "Increasingly doctors are finding quality of life issues important in the overall treatment of any disease, including erectile dysfunction," said Dr. Skip Freedman, executive medical director for AllMed Healthcare Management.Treating erectile dysfunction has changed over the last several years, and can offer men a confusing number of treatment choices.
On sex after prostate surgery, confusing data
For men having prostate cancer surgery, one of the biggest fears is that they will be left impotent. Unfortunately, the research that might help address that question is likely only to confuse. A notable study in 2005 showed that a year after surgery, 97 percent of patients were able to achieve an erection adequate for intercourse. But last month, researchers from George Washington University and New York University reviewed interim data from their own study showing that fewer than half of the men who had surgery felt their sex lives had returned to normal within a year. So which of the studies is right? Surprisingly, they both are. The results depend on several crucial variables — the type of patient studied, sex life before surgery and, most important, the definitions doctors use to define potency.
Less Sugar Prolongs a Man's Sex Life
No sex, alcohol and other risk factors have been proven to cause a rapid development in prostate cancer, the ultimate blow that can ruin a man's sex life. Too few recover after surgery without remaining impotent. Now, a research led at Duke Prostate Center and published in the online journal Prostate shows that being a sweet tooth also harms the prostate. Tests made on lab mice underline that a decrease in insulin levels triggered by less sugars in the diet could stop tumor .
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