Advanced Prostate Surgery

Prostate surgery is indicated when the prostate is larger than 50 gm and the flow if the urine has reduced below 10ml/sec, and the residual urine has increase beyond150ml. Some patients have difficulty in holding urine these patients also benefit from prostate surgery.

Generally three weeks of active rest at home is enough for complete recovery from a laser prostate surgery. The patient can walk inside the house and even climb stairs to walk around in the garden or the roof top of their house. During this period any heavy weight lifting is prohibited like lifting of heavy bucket of water. Also the patient should avoid straining at stools for which they are generally advised to take lady finger and isobgul husk...

Since prostate is a disease of the elderly male therefore many of the patients have cardiac issues. Prostate laser surgery is much safer than electroresection of the prostate by TURP. · Lesser bleed therefore less need to stop blood thinners · Lesser cardiac strain since less water is absorbed during laser surgery · Safe in patients on pacemaker since there is no electrical interference So in cardiac cases consult Dr Avishek Mukherjee MS MCh for further care.

Laser prostate surgery does not use any electrical current and therefore is safer in patients. The bleed is less and therefore the infection rate is less. The patient has a faster recovery. In cardiac cases on blood thinners the patient can be operated safely with little need to stop the blood thinner. In patients with pacemakers the turp electrical surgery can interfere with the pacemaker, since laser does not interfere with the pacemaker, the surgery is safer in patients with pacemakers. Even in patient with poor cardiac ejection fraction the laser does not increase the load on the heart and therefore is safer than TURP.

Prostate cancer is a very common cancer in men above the age of 60. It can be detected by a simple blood test PSA. If the PSA is elevated then the surgeon shall further confirm the diagnosis of prostate cancer with other tests too.

If the PSA level is elevated and the patient has no infection or retention of urine then the surgeon shall advise for an MRI test. If the MRI shows presence of a high suspicion lesion then the uro cancer surgeon generally advises of a transrectal core needle biopsy.

Prostate biopsy is a safe and essential test needed to diagnose the presence of prostate cancer. There is no chance of spread of the cancer due to the biopsy. But without biosy no treatment can be done of the cancer. This biopsy is performed under sedation and is painless and safe.

The best treatment of prostate cancer is radical prostate cancer removal surgery. This is best performed by Dr Avishek Mukherjee MS Mch who is the pioneer of this surgery in eastern India. He performed the first totally laparoscopic radical prostate cancer surgery in Kolkata in the year 2004.

Dr Avishek Mukherjee MS MCh is the best prostate cancer surgeon and has treated this complex cancer with great success for the past 25 years. He has performed many laparoscopic radical prostate surgeries and the patients have an excellent quality of life after the surgery.

NKPC Kidney clinic is a specialised centre for treatment of urological cancers. Therefore, this is best centre for your prostate cancer care. This centre Is headed by our chief surgeon Dr Avishek Mukherjee MS MCh. This centre was started in the year 2007 with the intention to provide state of the art care for all kidney bladder and prostate patients.

Prostate cancer can be cured if operated in stage one and two. However even in advanced cases we can provide an excellent quality of life to these patients with combination of radical surgery and also with hormone deprivation therapy.

A healthy lifestyle reduces the chance of prostate cancer. Regular sexual activity is also a very important part of prostatic health and helps in reducing the chance of prostate cancer.