New paper on ED after EBRT

[Guest guest]

There is a good posting on The

" New " Prostate Cancer Infolink at http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/

which days, amongst other points:

<snip> Over the years, the rates of erectile

dysfunction/impotence reported after the use of EBRT in treatment of prostate

cancer have varied wildly (from as low as 8 percent to as high as 85

percent). There are a range of reasons for this variation, including: (a) the

lack of a thorough pretreatment evaluation of patients’ sexual

functionality; ( the inclusion of data from patients who were receiving

androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in conjunction with their radiation therapy;

© wide variation in the methods used to define and assess sexual function;

and (d) failure to follow the patients for a sufficient period of time with

rigorous serial assessments. <snip>

All the best

Terry Herbert

I have no medical qualifications but I was diagnosed

in ‘96: and have learned a bit since then.

My sites are at www.yananow.net and www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

Dr

“Snuffy” Myers : " As a physician, I am painfully aware that most of the decisions

we make with regard to prostate cancer are made with inadequate data "