The prostate is a small walnut-sized gland present at the base of the urinary bladder and found only in men. About 5 to 8 men in 1,00,000 are affected by prostate cancer in India. The incidence of prostate cancer is higher among other countries worldwide. Prostate cancer symptoms include...
Penile cancer or cancer of the penis is a condition where cancerous cells grow in the tissues of the penis. It is a rare type of cancer where only about 26,000 cases per year are diagnosed worldwide. The treatment depends upon the type of cancer and the stage of...
The testes are the male sex glands and are responsible for making the sperm and the male sex hormone known as testosterone. They are a pair of two egg-shaped glands located behind the penis in a skinny bag called the scrotum. Performing a routine self-examination of the testes is...
Oftentimes we referre to a journal in our house and we are referred to series of articles on women health issues including screening for various cancers, treatment for osteoporosis and hormone replacement therapy. Though it was due to the increased awareness and tretamenr guidelines and scientific research that people...
Urological Oncology is one of the fields of medicine that has seen the evolution of the medicine as a whole. It has varied from application of Laparoscopy, minimally invasive techniques to the field and now Robot-assisted procedures. This foray has been supplanted by the inclusion of many newer and...
It is often not uncommon to find out people who are suffering from severe symptoms of urine passage which includes severe pain. Pain is what defines their problem, pain while holding too much urine, pain while expelling urine and pain following passage of urination. Of past few decades, the...
Well, one of the most common symptoms in a Urology outdoors is burning urination. The variation in severity can be so diverse as to render a patient subjected to harrowing line of investigations, needed or not. First come first Symptom by symptom Only burning in urination without any difference...
The small patchy white spots on the glans and Penile skin may not just be non-b bothersome depigmentation. It is especially true if accompanied by poor urinary flow rates. These spots or a large patch with itchy areas of dryness may be suggestive of Lichen Sclerosus et atrophicus, a...
Peyronies disease is one of the common, inconvenient diseases that has been compromising male sexual health since long time. The disease is characterized by a formation of a calcific plaque at the base of the penis on the dorsal side or Upper side. Often the involvement is circumferential in...
The ever expanding medical field has been obsessed with life threatening, dramatic preventions and cutting edge technology to provide those additional years. For decades, the advancement in medicine meant cardiology, heart and neurology and neurosuregry-the brain. While the advancement was holistic, little was done to explain and create awareness...