April 28, 2005 — Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO 2) therapy given within six months of hematuria onset is effective for radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis, according to the results of a retrospective study ...

Credit: istockphoto A novel study revealed that 55.5% of men with a history of prostate cancer who sought emergency department treatment for radiation cystitis received an invasive procedure. More ...

Michael Nesbit was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. After radiation treatment and five years of being cancer-free, he thought he had truly beaten this disease. It wasn’t until he went back for ...

Preventive effect of goshajinkigan against peripheral neuropathy induced by paclitaxel-containing chemotherapy: An open-label, randomized, phase II study. Background: Despite improvements in ...

Nocturia owing to cystitis following radiation therapy for prostate cancer is a problem in approximately 25% of patients. New research suggests that glycosaminoglycan replacement therapy, with a ...

Men who took cranberry capsules during and after external beam radiation treatment experienced less severe symptoms of cystitis. Men undergoing external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer (PCa ...

UCLA researchers have found that radiation therapy is the most common treatment for men with prostate cancer regardless of the aggressiveness of the tumor, risk to the patient and overall patient ...

A 79-year-old man with a 12-year history of clinically localized prostate cancer presented to a hospital with a urethral stricture. He had developed radiation cystitis and low-grade non-invasive ...

– a non-invasive treatment that heals wounds – is well-established at treating conditions such as external wounds that are slow to heal, bone infections and decompression sickness. It also can be used ...

Cystitis (sis-TIE-tis) is the medical term for inflammation of the bladder. Most of the time, the inflammation is caused by a bacterial infection, and it's called a urinary tract infection (UTI). A ...