Incontinence After Prostate Cancer Treatment: First Study to Identify Factors for Higher Risk
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 06/27/12 -- Attention: Health and Lifestyle Editors
A man's likelihood of needing a urinary incontinence procedure doubles within a 15-year period after radical prostatectomy treatment for prostate cancer, with significant risk linked to increasing patient age, radiation after treatment and low surgeon volume, report Sunnybrook researchers in the first, large, long-term study of rates of incontinence procedures among over 25,000 Canadian men.
"We hope these findings will help patients and their physicians have a more informed discussion about the treatment decision and potential implications for long term impact on quality of life," says Dr. Robert Nam, lead investigator, urological oncologist, and head of the Genitourinary Cancer Care team at .
Published in the Journal of Urology, the study included 25,346 Canadian men who underwent radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer from 1993 to 2006. The researchers used hospital and cancer registry data to identify men who were later treated with surgical procedures for urinary incontinence.
Findings show the cumulative rate of post-prostatectomy incontinence surgery doubled from 2.8 percent at 5 years, to 4.8 percent at 15 years.
Factors predicting risk for incontinence surgery:
"Our findings also prompt much-needed dialogue among healthcare professionals about how we can further facilitate reduced complications for patients while continuing to have system resources to remedy in a timely manner, complications that do occur," says Dr. Nam, associate professor, Department of Surgery, , and associate scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute.
Radical prostatectomy is a common treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer, or disease that has not spread beyond the prostate gland. Incontinence surgery involves the insertion of an artificial urinary sphincter or a urinary sling.
About 25,500 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually in Canada.
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