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Guidelines confirm: less impotence and incontinence after seed implantations compared to surgery

What has already been evidenced in numerous international studies1, has now been confirmed by leading experts: prostate cancer patients, who receive brachytherapy (internal beam radiation), suffer significantly less from incompetence after the treatment. This is also true for incontinence, which is with a 0,3 to 3 percent occurrence disappearingly small compared to an occurrence of 50 percent in cases in which prostate carcinoma was treated by surgery2. Additionally, Incontinence actually occurs only after previously performed transurethral prostate resection (TURP).

What has already been evidenced in numerous international studies1, has now been confirmed by leading experts: prostate cancer patients, who receive brachytherapy (internal beam radiation), suffer significantly less from incompetence after the treatment. This is also true for incontinence, which is with a 0,3 to 3 percent occurrence disappearingly small compared to an occurrence of 50 percent in cases in which prostate carcinoma was treated by surgery2. Additionally, Incontinence actually occurs only after previously performed transurethral prostate resection (TURP).


Literature:
1. Thompson I, Thrasher JB, Aus G, Burnett AL, Canby-Hagino ED, Cookson MS, D'Amico AV, Dmochowski RR, Eton DT, Forman JD, Goldenberg SL, Hernandez J, Higano CS, Kraus SR, Moul JW, Tangen CM, AUA Prostate Cancer Clinical Guideline
Update Panel. Guideline for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer:
2007 update. J Urol 2007;177(6):2106-31.

2. Konsultationsfassung der S3-Leitlinie zum Prostatakarzinom 2009, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (DGU)
 
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