Can radical prostatectomy prevent and improve lower urinary tract symptoms?
Eva Johansson, Gunnar Steineck* and Anna Bill-Axelson
Correspondence *Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Z5 U1, Karolinska Institute, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
Email gunnar.steineck@ki.se
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Healthcare professionals spend considerable time trying to ameliorate symptoms, and in doing so they have increased the quality of life of their patients. For many men with or without prostate cancer, quality of life is affected by difficulty in emptying the bladder. In patients with bladder cancer, data show that the more symptoms an individual has, the higher the likelihood that their quality of life will deteriorate.1 Clinical experience shows that this finding is also true for survivors of prostate cancer.
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