[Analysis of complications in metastatic prostate cancer patients submitted to bilateral orchiectomy]. / Análise de complicações em pacientes portadores de câncer de próstata metastático submetidos à orquiectomia bilateral.
Rev Col Bras Cir
; 37(4): 269-73, 2010 Aug.
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze the possible complications that the surgical hormonal ablation can cause to the submitted patients. METHODS: That's an analytical transversal study with a sample of 25 patients, between 58 to 82 years, carriers of metastatic prostate cancer, submitted to the bilateral orchiectomy in the Professor Alberto Antunes University Hospital 's (HUPAA-UFAL), in the period of January of 2003 to December of 2008. It was made an evaluation by an objective questionnaire for those who were still alive. RESULTS: Of the 25 evaluated patients, 56% were still alive, with average of current age of 71 years, having presented as more frequent complications: reduction of the libido and sexual impotence (100%), bone fragility (64%), problems of memory and variations of mood (57%), hot waves and gain of weight (50%). 86% of the interviewed ones had related to be satisfied with the results of the procedure and had affirmed that they can have a normal daily life, with significant improvement of the clinical stage. About the adjuvant treatments, only 36% had carried through, being most common, chemotherapy (36%) and x-ray (29%). CONCLUSION: The bilateral orchiectomy constitutes in a good alternative for metastatic prostate cancer patients, in a way that it is observed satisfaction of the majority of the patients in relation to the improvement of the symptoms and the presented complications had not great impact in the daily life of the same ones.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Próstata
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Orquiectomia
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Pt
Revista:
Rev Col Bras Cir
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Brasil