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Interview 34  

Interview 34

Age at Interview: 72
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 67
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1995, TURP in 1984, hormone treatment.


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Describes how the TURP operation cured his symptoms for a number of years.

 



He suggested I go into the local infirmary to have TURP operation, that's a trans urethral resection of the prostate. That really means putting a catheter up the penis as far as the prostate gland and then cutting away some of the gland to reduce the restriction on the urethra from the enlarged prostate. This was a fairly straight forward operation, it's under general anaesthetic, but the surgeon then scrapes away part of the prostate. You're completely unaware of what's happening, when you come to in the recover room there's no real pain, and, but you're kept in hospital for about a week drinking loads of water and passing the water through a catheter into a container until all the debris from the operation is washed away and any blood is washed away. 

Unfortunately in my case, and probably about in 3 of the 9 in the ward there was a bit of infection and so I was kept in for a further 3 days. But after that the operation proved to be completely successful, passing urine was perfectly normal and that, the power was back there and it seemed to have completely cured the symptoms. I did have a little bit of bother with the urine spraying somewhat for the first year or so really but I did learn afterwards I could have had that corrected at the time if I'd mentioned it. So after that I'd no problems at all until oh, 12, 13 years later.
Karol Sikora - Prostate cancer
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