Original Medicare (parts A and B) covers medically necessary prostate surgeries, including treatments for an enlarged prostate and prostate cancer. Medicare covers various prostate procedures, ...

Using a high-pressure water jet to operate on an enlarged prostate can better preserve the ability to ejaculate, compared with standard laser surgery, finds research. The technique has similar ...

The most common surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. This surgery involves taking out the entire prostate gland, some lymph nodes and other nearby tissue, like the seminal vesicles ...

A new procedure at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley is helping men with a common medical issue as they age. While stress incontinence is a common issue in women‚ leading to urinary leakage ...

The optimal strategy for treating newly diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer remains unclear. More specifically, do these patients benefit more from radical prostatectomy or a radiotherapy-based ...

MSK surgeon Dr. Timothy Donahue says the new imaging technology could potentially help prevent nerve damage in a range of operations. Men having prostate cancer surgery often fear side effects that ...

Men with early-stage prostate cancer can safely hold off on radiation or surgery , confirms a new study that offers the longest-term treatment data yet. "Watchful waiting," more recently renamed ...

The presence of scar tissue, periprostatic fibrosis, and inflammation due to previous surgery increases the complexity of some surgical tasks, according to investigators. Undergoing radical ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men throughout the United States. Most men do not realize they have cancer due ...

Synchronous metastatic disease is characterized by the presence of metastatic lesions, in addition to the primary tumor, at diagnosis. Investigators in South Korea demonstrated the benefit in a ...