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The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of patient-self reported post prostatectomy incontinence, impotence, bladder neck contracture or stricture, better, same or worse quality of life and willingness for same treatment again in a large group of radical prostatectomy (RP) patients and to determine if these morbidities are predictable with demographic, surgical or prostate cancer (PC) factors.
Methods: A patient self-reporting questionnaire was completed and returned by 374 out of 458 eligible (81.7%) RP patients from one center, 267 (72.2%) have been operated since 1990 and all of whom were a minimum six month postoperative (75%>1 y). Questionnaire results were independently analyzed by a third party and correlated to demographic, operative, and tumor factors in an ongoing comprehensive PC database.
Results: The patient self-reported incidence of post prostatectomy incontinence (any degree), impotence, and bladder neck contracture or stricture was 72.2, 87.4, and 25.9%, respectively. The reported rate of incontinence requiring protection was 39.0% and only 2.4% had persistent bladder neck contracture/stricture. Pathologic stage (continuous variable) was the only factor to significantly predict incontinence and no factor could predict impotence or bladder neck contracture/stricture in univariate analysis. No factor was predictive of morbidity by multivariate analysis. Despite incontinence and impotence significantly affecting QOL self-reporting (P=0.001, 0.001, respectively) and willingness to undergo RP again (P=0.001, 0.067, respectively), the majority of patients would choose surgery again.
Conclusions: Although radical prostatectomy morbidity is common and affects patient-reported overall QOL, most patients would choose the same treatment again. Demographic, preoperative, operative, and tumor factors did not reliably predict patient-reported morbidity in this series.
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Moul, J., Mooneyhan, R., Kao, TC. et al. Preoperative and operative factors to predict incontinence, impotence and stricture after radical prostatectomy. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 1, 242–249 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.pcan.4500248
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