Sometimes it doesn't. When that happens, there are other options for patients. One of them is Son's specialty. He is one of the few doctors in the Southeast, and the only one in the midstate, trained in a recently developed procedure using a laser to operate on the prostate.
Recovery time is minimal.
The surgery involves hollowing out the prostate, the walnut-shaped organ that surrounds the urethra at the base of a man's bladder. An enlarged prostate can impede urine flow. Most men, if they live long enough, will get an enlarged prostate gland. The condition is most often non-cancerous and not life threatening. Instead of removing the entire prostate, as is the case in surgery for prostate cancer, the laser resection, as it is called, involves removal of the organ's insides.