Transurethral Needle Ablation (TUNA)
Radio frequency energy can also be conducted through tiny needles, which are inserted directiy into prostate tissue via a special catheter. The needles can riddle the BPH tissue with holes of various sizes to weaken the tissue’s grip on the urethra. Experiments using TUNA in animals have been promising, and clinical trials [...]
Ultrasound, a painless method of imaging, creates a picture with high-frequency sound waves—like sonar on a submarine. It may be done either from the outside, through the abdomen, or transrectally, via a wand inserted in the rectum. Though not recommended for most men with BPH, it can be valuable in checking for such problems as [...]
About one-third of men with metastatic prostate cancer may be at risk for spinal cord compression—when proliferating cancer cells cause part of the spinal column to collapse, trapping and sometimes crushing nearby nerves. If you have severe pain in your back that accompanies leg weakness, loss of sensation (often beginning with numbness or tingling in [...]
Ultimately, what kills men with advanced prostate cancer are these malignant hormone-insensitive, or androgen-insensitive, cells. And right now, we don’t have any way to stop them. Standard chemotherapy—a host of drugs that work so well in treating other kinds of cancer—doesn’t help, mainly because it’s designed to target cells that are dividing much faster than [...]
It was just a routine physical—until Peter Weaver’s* doctor found a lump in his prostate.
“I went in to the doctor’s office sort of full of myself,” recalls Weaver, who was 63 at the time. “I felt in great shape, I was jogging every day, doing some weights, eating well and having a good married life.” [...]
If you are fertile it does not matter in what position you have intercourse, but if you are
sub-fertile it can make all the difference as to whether or not you will conceive. The first thing to try is to put a pillow under the woman’s hips so that the pool of semen ejaculated into the [...]
An erection in the presence of a woman is a biological compliment to her but both men who want to have intercourse and those who unconsciously want to avoid it can have problems. Sometimes no erection is possible or it may be insufficiently strong to be of any use for penetration. Some men find that [...]
Recent research has confirmed what many women have known all their lives, that the front wall of the vagina can be very sexually sensitive and can even produce orgasms when stimulated in the absence of clitoral stimulation. This area of the vaginal wall has been called the G-spot after the German gynaecologist, Ernst Grafenberg. It [...]
When it comes to handling a man’s sex organs there are a few hints that might help lovers. First, a man’s penis can be very small at times, especially if he is cold or anxious or not feeling at all sexy. There is no need for concern because the penis will come back to its [...]
This lasts about twenty years, covering the period during which the children grow up and leave home. In general, dissatisfaction with marriage increases during this period and most couples tend to draw apart. Earlier problems that were not resolved are aggravated, intercourse rates fall, and experimentation declines. Ironically, sex now rears its head in a [...]