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PROSTATITIS: WHICH KIND DO I HAVE?
This is a key question: Medical treatment varies for each type of prostatitis. Nonbacterial prostatitis, for example, can’t be helped by antimicrobial (bacteria-killing) drugs such as antibiotics. But bacterial prostatitis can’t be treated withoutthem. Therefore, making the right diagnosis is crucial.
Acute Bacterial Prostatitis hits suddenly, with the impact of a freight train, and it’s impossible [...]
TRANSURETHRAL INCISION OF THE PROSTATE (TUIP)
What Happens
In terms of anesthesia, recovery, and mode of access to the prostate, this procedure is similar to the TUR: An instrument called a resectoscope lights the way for surgeons to see the prostate; the resectoscope is threaded through the urethra, so no skin incision is needed. The difference is that, instead of removing the [...]
WHAT MAKES THE PROSTATE GROW?: WHERE GROWTH BEGINS: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
The prostate has five distinct zones. For this chapter, only one of these—the tiniest, an area known as the transition zone—is important. The transition zone makes up only about s percent of the normal prostate gland in young men. Yet this tiny ring of tissue is the source of all the trouble in BPH. It’s [...]
I HAVE CANCER IN MY LYMPH NODES. WHAT DO I DO NOW?
There is cancer in your lymph nodes. Maybe you learned about this before surgery—maybe your surgeon looked at the lymph nodes, found cancer there, and decided not to remove your prostate. Maybe this has come about after surgery—perhaps you have already undergone a radical prostatectomy, and a pathologist has found some cancer in the lymph [...]
INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY (IMPLANTING RADIOACTIVE SEEDS) FOR PROSTATE CANCER: WHAT COMPLICATIONS CAN CAUSED
Rectal Problems. Several studies report that from 20 percent to 25 percent of men suffered rectal complications, such as diarrhea, cramps or bleeding; most of these problems were not severe. Men who were treated more aggressively (in one study, men with larger, stage T3 or T4, or C, tumors got radioactive iodine seeds plus external-beam [...]
HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: EXTENSIVE HOMOSEXUALITY
Over half (59 per cent) of the homosexual offenders vs. minors had had extensive homosexual experience, which we define as having had sexual contact with more than a score of males. Only one group, the homosexual offenders vs. adults, had a larger proportion of extensively experienced individuals.
In terms of the percentage of these male sexual [...]
INCEST OFFENDERS VS. MINORS: VARIETIES OF OFFENDERS
The incest offenders vs. minor daughters do not lend themselves easily to classification: the majority could not be fitted into any one taxonomic pigeonhole. In fact, one gains the impression that this very difficulty reflects a general psychological trait of these hard-to-classify offenders: the unthinking and often stupid gratification of impulse, and, once the taboo [...]
HETEROSEXUAL AGGRESSORS VS. ADULTS: PREMARITAL COITUS
The aggressors vs. adults rather rapidly gained experience in premarital coitus. By age fourteen some 40 per cent (fifth rank) had had coitus with companions or with prostitutes; by sixteen, 64 per cent; by eighteen, 84 per cent (fourth rank); and by twenty, 91 per cent (second rank). At the time of interview, the figure [...]
HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: MARRIAGE
Three quarters of our sample of heterosexual offenders vs. adults had married before we questioned them, which is a sizable proportion considering the average (median) married offender vs. adults was not quite thirty-two years old at the time of the interview. Our accumulative incidence data show them as being marriage-prone: nearly two fifths had married [...]
SEX OFFENDERS: HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN
The sex offenders treated here are adult males convicted of sexual contact, without the use of force or threat, with female children under the age of twelve, who were not their daughters. The majority of these children were prepubescent; they had not developed pubic hair, breast enlargement, and other adult sexual characteristics that are sexually [...]