Prostate

1. Westgerman Prostate Center

Westdeutsches Prostatazentrum//Consultation hours: Monday to Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. (with appointment)

2. Permanent Incontinence after Prostate-Surgery

Noch immer werden Männer vor einer Prostata-OP über Harninkontinenz als Spätfolge des Eingriffs nicht umfassend aufgeklärt. Dabei trifft der unfreiwillige Verlust von Urin trotz nervenschonender Operationstechniken ...

3. Prostate Cancer: Patients over 70 Years often undertreated

Die Diagnose Prostatakrebs bedeutet heute längst kein Todesurteil mehr. Wird die Erkrankung mittels PSA-Test, Ultraschall und Abtasten rechtzeitig entdeckt, ist sie in vielen Fällen heilbar. Obwohl Prostatakrebs ...

4. HIFU and Cryotherapy are currently not justified

HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound), as well as cryotherapy prove not to be adequate alternatives for the treatment of localized prostate carcinoma. These are the latest findings in the new Prostate ...

5. HDR-Brachytherapy delivers outstanding cure-rates and quality of life

HDR-Afterloading therapy provides excellent results / The West-German Prostate Center introduces its latest study at the EAU in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona April 18, 2010 – Prostate cancer patients-with ...

6. PSA test cuts mortality rate in half

... at the beginning of the 1980s, the test for early detection of the prostate cancer is now even more critically discussed than ever before. The recent discussions were caused by two American studies that ...

7. Laser therapy safer than TURP

Patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a nonmalignant enlargement of the prostate, benefit from a laser therapy. This was shown by a current study recently published in the European Journal ...

8. Dr. Neubauer among the best seven Urologists in Germany

Dr. Stephan Neubauer, Specialist in Urology at the West-German Prostate Center, was included in the list of „150 best physicians in Germany“. This list of leading experts was recently published by the ...

9. PSA test cuts mortality rate in half

... the test for early detection of the prostate cancer is now even more critically discussed than ever before. The recent discussions were caused by two American studies that were published last year by the ...

10. International Patients

Information for our International Patients:   As one of the leading centers in Europe the West German Prostate Center offers the entire spectrum of diagnostics, therapies, and ...

11. Prostate Carcinoma: just wait and see, and not do anything?

Thanks to improved early detection methods, prostate carcinoma are more often discovered at an early stage, and especially in Germany this still leads to radical surgical procedures. At the same time, ...

12. HDR-Brachytherpay delivers outstanding cure-rates and quality of life

HDR-Afterloading therapy provides excellent results / The West-German Prostate Center introduces its latest study at the EAU in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona April 18, 2010 – Prostate cancer patients-with ...

13. Prostate Carcinoma: just wait and see, and not do anything?

Thanks to improved early detection methods, prostate carcinoma are more often discovered at an early stage, and especially in Germany this still leads to radical surgical procedures. At the same time, ...

14. Laser treatment now also possible for benign prostatic enlargement

The West-German Prostate Center is the first Center in Germany to use a state-of-the-art high power diode laser in addition to the conventional green light laser. With a performance of 180 W, this high ...

15. More side effects after robot-assisted surgery

... invasive technique, these complications are even more pronounced after robotic-assisted surgery than after standard surgical therapies for localized prostate cancer. The results of the study show that ...

16. Guidelines confirm: less impotence and incontinence after seed implantations compared to surgery

What has already been evidenced in numerous international studies1, has now been confirmed by leading experts: prostate cancer patients, who receive brachytherapy (internal beam radiation), suffer significantly ...

17. IGRT increases precision in Radiation Therapy

For a long time, radical surgery of the prostate was believed to be the only successful treatment method for prostate cancer. However, meanwhile modern treatment techniques for the management of prostate ...

18. Department of Urology at the KLINIK am RING successfully certified

... Dr. Stephan Neubauer and Dr. Pedram Derakhshani. “Especially with modern high-specialized treatment methods, such as brachytherapy (internal radiation therapy) for prostate carcinoma, the success depends ...

19. Dr. Neubauer as Expert at the WDR

... results to be interpreted? Does a PSA level 4 require immediate surgery? Are there alternative treatments? These and many other questions about the „prevention of prostate cancer“, are answered live by ...

20. Implementing the prostate cancer guidelines

... BDU) wants to translate the new S3 Guidelines for the treatment of the prostate carcinoma into practice. In a statewide initiative furthering education, the currently available knowledge of early detection, ...