The latest surgical method for prostate cancer. How to care for the prostate after surgery

Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that is unique to men. Once it occurs, it can easily affect nearby reproductive organs, causing great harm to the patient's health. Even worse, the patient may not be able to survive due to the presence of the disease. It can be seen that once prostate cancer is discovered, it must be treated in a timely manner. What are the surgical methods for prostate cancer? This is a question that many prostate cancer patients continue to pay attention to when treating the disease. Let's learn about it together.

Clinically, when people deal with prostate cancer, the surgical methods mainly include the following:

1. Orchiectomy: Up to 95% of the androgens in the male body are produced by the testicles, and the growth of prostate cancer mainly depends on androgens. Therefore, orchiectomy can effectively treat prostate cancer.

2. Radical prostatectomy: Prostate cancer is clinically divided into four stages: A, B, C, and D. Clinically, radical prostatectomy is mainly applicable to the first two stages, while for stage C or D prostate cancer, castration or radiotherapy can be used to shrink the tumor before radical prostatectomy. This surgery is mainly used for tumors limited to the prostate, and cannot be used to treat cancerous lesions that invade the seminal vesicles or lymph nodes.

3. Pelvic lymph node dissection: When people use radical prostatectomy to treat the disease, pelvic lymph node dissection is also required to more accurately stage the disease and remove the lesions inside the pelvis, preparing for radiotherapy and endocrine therapy after surgery.

4. Transurethral resection of the prostate: For people who cannot withstand prostate cancer surgery, transurethral resection of the prostate is performed. Its function is to relieve prostate cancer from bladder neck obstruction. If there is residual cancer tissue after the surgery, external radiotherapy or radical surgery is required.

What are the surgical methods for prostate cancer? For a disease like prostate cancer, people must pay attention to timely treatment after being diagnosed with the disease, and conduct clear examinations before treatment to try to avoid missing treatment complications during the treatment process, thereby causing greater harm to their own health.