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Treatment Side Effects Can Be Difficult to Handle
Obviously, getting rid of the cancer is the top priority; sometimes comfort has to take a back seat to survival. Prostate cancer surgery has been known to cause erectile dysfunction and problems with urine leakage, which can have a fairly significant impact on your quality of life.
Fortunately, complications aren’t inevitable. Surgeons may be able to work around the nerves that help trigger and maintain erections, so your sex life won’t necessarily end with prostate cancer treatment.
Also, bladder issues are less permanent than you might imagine: most leakage happen only in the recovery stage following surgery, and within a year, the vast majority of men have as much bladder control as they had before their operation.
Some types of cancer are far less likely to happen — but not impossible. Here’s a look at five rare, but very real, uncommon cancers.
