DALLAS – Aug. 29, 2007 – Michael Yarborough, a 58-year-old business owner from Waxahachie, Texas, was fortunate. A routine check-up three years ago revealed prostate cancer, but a side effect of his ...

Michael Yarborough, a 58-year-old business owner from Waxahachie, Texas, was suffering from the side effect of a successful surgery for prostrate cancer- urinary incontinence. Michael Yarborough, a 58 ...

Stress urinary incontinence in men is usually a result of intrinsic sphincter deficiency following prostate cancer surgery. Active conservative management with fluid restriction, medication management ...

Prospective evaluations by two European teams support use of the AdVance ™ male sling to relieve post-prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The symptoms of three-quarters of men in whom the ...

Screening and the early detection of prostate cancer have led to a dramatic increase in the number of men undergoing radical prostatectomy. As a consequence, stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is now ...

A urethral sling placed via a transobturator approach has recently emerged as a treatment option for men with mild-to-moderate postprostatectomy incontinence. The primary difference between this ...

The theme for this month is medium- and long-term outcomes of surgical treatments for urinary incontinence. A major weakness of most of the literature on this disorder is the lack of studies on ...

DALLAS, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A male sling procedure helps prostate cancer survivors who have urinary incontinence as a result of the surgery, a Dallas researcher said. The new type of device, called the ...

Minnesota-based American Medical Systems has won a U.S. patent for covering the surgical methodology for implanting the AMS AdVance Male Sling, including broad patent coverage on transobturator ...

A routine check-up for a businessman three years ago revealed prostate cancer. The cancer was caught in time, but a side effect of his successful surgery was "driving him nuts." Losing urine control ...