Drugs are not always prescribed to treat the condition for which they were originally intended, or for which they earned their original license. The latest to get the ‘off-label’ treatment is that great urban myth Viagra (sildenafil). It...
Men who’ve been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer are faced with a difficult choice: do you undergo radical surgery immediately, or do you wait until the symptoms worsen, a strategy known as watchful waiting? Doctors often fail to point out...
Radical prostatectomy to remove the entire prostate - the walnut-sized gland located in front of the rectum, between the bladder and the penis - is the first port of call in the treatment of clinically localised prostate cancer. More than 30,000 of...