Keyhole cancer surgery enable patients to have sex after surgery! new

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c palmer - 27 Sep 2004 13:56 GMT

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2004

LONDON: A new landmark surgery that was recently performed at a London
hospital, the Bristol Royal Infirmary, has ensured that patients can
resume an active sex-life after the operation.

The operation, which was preformed on a 48-year old bladder cancer
patient, is called laparoscopic nerve-sparing cystectomy.

The surgery involves the removal of the bladder and prostate in male
bladder cancer patients. It is also beneficial because patients suffer
less nerve damage during the surgery, reports the Daily Mail .

The procedure involves the removal of the organs through a tiny 10cm
incision, rather than open surgery which needs a 50cm one. It also does
not need blood transfusions and patients recover in a faster time, which
reduces the risk of infection including MRSA.
MO

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."

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Brendan - 28 Sep 2004 03:49 GMT

This surgery was demonstrated in Australia about this time last year. One
of the surgeons who was at the deomonstration in Perth was a colleague of my
urologist, who said that the opinion his colleague gave was that it is
certainly ground breaking but there needed to be a lot more work done on it
before he'd be comfortable with it.

> MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
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> "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
> invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."

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