Prostate cancer is a disease that is currently the most widespread cancer among men, with 92.000 being diagnosed every year in Europe.
How can prostate cancer be detected?
In prostate cancer we have a spectrum that makes some very aggressive and others not. Even today, it is considered that one of the attitudes is not to treat or to try to delay the treatment, because the disease is not very aggressive.
It is the urologist's job to know how to discern what type of tumor should be treated and how it should be treated.
Given the nature of prostate cancer, this cancer does not manifest itself in very late stages. Therefore, patients should be checked at the urologist with a PSA. In addition, it is necessary to perform a rectal examination after 40 and 50 years to try to diagnose this disease in early stages. In this way, you can have a curative treatment of it.
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What treatments are there for prostate cancer?
Currently as curative treatments that are endorsed by European guidelines we have the radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy.
Radical prostatectomy is the treatment that urologists perform. Nowadays, in many centers, as is the case with ours, we do it in a minimally invasive way.
Within surgery, the important pillars for a good result are 3:
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The nature of the tumor itself There are tumors that are very aggressive, therefore, it will have greater consequences and side effects.
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The technology. Do the surgery in a laparoscopic way and in 3D we allow the resolution to be much better, so the result can have a more accurate vision and obtain better results.
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The surgeon. It is the most important factor to improve the oncological and functional results of surgery. Today the functional results are very important, because patients increasingly demand better quality of life.
