A case of prostatic adenocarcinoma recurrence presenting as ductal carcinoma of the prostate.

Background: A 61-year-old man with a history of recurrent prostate cancer presented with obstructive urinary symptoms. He had been diagnosed with locally invasive adenocarcinoma of the prostate 10 years previously and treated with neoadjuvant hormonal and external beam radiation therapies. Because of the patient's rising PSA level, he had been started on goserelin 6 years after this diagnosis and bicalutamide 6 months before the current presentation.

Nonseminomatous testicular cancer.

Testicular cancer is the most common solid malignancy in young men between the ages of 20 and 40 years. Its incidence is increasing worldwide. The success achieved in its treatment has not been seen in any other cancer.

Gender differences in radical cystectomy: complications and blood loss.

Objectives: To review the impact of gender on blood loss, transfusions, and complications. Radical cystectomy is technically different between men and women. Unique to women, dissection of the anterior vaginal wall can be associated with added blood loss.

Prospective study of urinary tract infections and urinary antibodies after radical prostatectomy and cystoprostatectomy.

The authors have prospectively documented that men who undergo orthotopic bladder substitution more frequently experience bacteriuria than do normal men [19] or men with carcinoma of the prostate scheduled to have radical prostatectomy (see Table 1). Because the frequency of bacteriuria in men after prostatectomy was also lower than that after orthotopic bladder substitution (see Table 1), removal of the prostate and any of its presumed antibacterial properties probably does not account for this difference. Furthermore, the authors' data (see Table 5 ) and that of Woodside and associates [23] demonstrate that intestine incorporated into the genitourinary tract generates a local antibody response against urinary bacteria.