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The myth is that prostate cancer treatment destroys men’s erections. The truth is more complicated. Men facing treatment for this disease should prepare themselves emotionally for permanent erectile ...

Receiving radiotherapy after prostatectomy does negatively affect long-term health-related quality of life, including sexual function, urinary incontinence, and urinary irritation, but the timing of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exercise 3 days per week improved sexual function for men with prostate cancer vs. usual care. Exercise also ...

Prostate cancer that has not spread beyond the prostate may be managed with active surveillance or treated with surgery or radiation therapy. For patients who need treatment, the choice is often ...

A national study of more than 20,000 men with prostate cancer compared long-term outcomes after radiation therapy or surgical removal of the prostate, with follow-up of up to 20 years. Men who ...

Most men with low-grade prostate cancer have an excellent prognosis, with a five-year survival rate of more than 99%. But radical prostatectomy—surgery to remove the prostate—can lead to sexual and ...

For men facing a prostatectomy or working through recovery from prostate surgery or radiation, pelvic floor training is increasingly showing up as part of the roadmap back to bladder control and ...

For many men with prostate cancer, weeks of daily treatments are no longer the norm. Jonathan Tward, MD, a radiation oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, explains how image guidance, real-time ...

Sexual function declined in both groups, but ED was more prevalent in those who had surgery, 79 percent after prostatectomy vs. 64 percent after radiation. Harvard researchers conducted a similar ...