For men over 40, there may be no more important
health check than an annual prostate exam. And when any of the following symptoms are
apparent, we urge patients to call Ventura County Urology Medical Group for
an appointment:
• Weak urination
• Start-and-stop urination
• Awakening at night with the urge to urinate
• Painful or burning urination
• Frequent urges to urinate
• Post-urination urges to urinate again
Annual prostate checks and PSA tests
will greatly reduce male deaths due to prostate cancer.
Prostate Cancer
We are experts in diagnosis of curing prostate cancer, since we have over 50 combined
years of experience in this field. Our diagnostic skills and technology are
outstanding giving you excellent statistics compared with U.S. urology centers. We
have the longest services in California using Brachytherapy and have done over
3000
"nerve sparing" radical prostatectomies for prostate cancer. We also use
"watchful waiting", conformed external radiation, cryosurgery and hormone
therapy when it is deemed best for the patient.
We treat each patient as an individual, as though we ourselves were
in his shoes. Our patients are all referred for second opinions for radiation
consultations and to other urologists.
We stress preventive care for our patients who are at high risk for
getting prostate cancer and we offer neutriceuiticals that are second to none.
If a patient is receiving a yearly rectal exam and PSA
blood test
after his is 50 and he develops prostate cancer he has over a 90% cure rate in our care.
NOTE:
For additional information, please visit our
Prostate Cancer Prevention page.
We focus on cure, but we also make sure every effort
to prevent incontinence or impotency. We treat the whole patient! About one-third of our
surgical patients have persistent ED. All are treated so they can have intercourse
whenever they wish. Incontinence is almost a thing of the past with all the new
advancements in surgery and radiation.
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY /
BLADDER OUTLET OBSTRUCTION
Benign tumor adenoma is a non-cancaerous tumor that grows inside the prostate constricting
the urethra and making urination more difficult as men grow older. Obstruction causes
slower stream, urgency, frequency and increased nighttime voiding.
Easily diagnosed in our office with prostate ultrasound or
bladder examination (cystoscopy).
Ventura County Urology Medical Group
uses the latest procedures, including Transurethral Microwave Therapy (TUMT), and Indigo
Laser. Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) is commonly known as "enlarged
prostate." BPH is easily diagnosed in our office using ultrasound or cystoscopy
(bladder examination).
Different Treatments:
Robotics - Assisted daVinci Prostatectomy -
Using
tate-of-the-art da Vinci computer-enhanced minimally invasive surgery
system, surgeons perform the same procedure done in conventional dVP but
are aided by a three-dimensional computer vision system to manipulate
four robotic arms.
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Saw Palmetto:
(580 mg 3 times a day) Mild herbal therapy relaxes the prostate and improves the stream.
First line of therapy. Helps many men.
Alpha Blockers: (Flomax, Cardura, Hytrin)
Relaxes the bladder neck and improves the stream. Much better than Saw Palmetto.
Prostate balloon dilation:
Improves stream in young men with small obstructing prostates. Rarely used now.
Outpatient.
Microwave therapy (TUMT)::
Good treatment for medium and small prostate-outpatient-painless-bloodless in office.
Might need to be repeated every five years or so. Long-term results not known yet.
Also used in patients with recurrent chronic prostatitis.
Indigo Laser:
Office outpatient procedure. Bloodless, painless.
Eighty percent of patients do well.
TURP:
"Gold standard"-gives the best postoperative results requires
one to two nights stay in
hospital-painless-almost bloodless-best long-range results. No effect on sexual function
with exception of retrograde ejaculation; i.e. inability to conceive children.
TUIP:
Incision of the bladder neck and prostate. Works well with small prostates and tight
bladder necks. Usually, outpatient or one night.
Open prostatectomy:
Uncommon surgery now-used for very large prostate gland. Hospitalization for three to four
nights-moderate postoperative pain-excellent long-term results. No change of sexual
function with exception of retrograde ejaculation.
2807 Loma Vista Rd., Ste. 101
Ventura, CA 93003
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