Posts Tagged ‘Prostate cancer question’

Question:

“My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and the doctor said the bacteria is really bad. We can’t touch it or open it to see where it has spread. If we do the bacteria will spread quickly throughout his body and he can die. So what stage does this mean my dad is in and is this treatable?”

Answer:

It is a very interesting question regarding Bacteremia.  What we assume was Bacteremia after the prostate biopsy and what happens now is that a lot of bacteria are becoming resistant to the most common antibiotic used to prevent infection, which are the group of antibiotics called quinolones and when this occurs, the patients may have bacteria in the bloodstream. This may require intravenous antibiotics and long-acting antibiotics.  Now, this has nothing to do with the prostate cancer and in fact, what needs to be done about the situation is to treat the inflammation, and after the inflammation is controlled and the infection is controlled, then the prostate cancer can be treated.  In general, prostate cancer tumors are slow-growing, they take time to grow, and they may take months to years to spread out.  Thus, when we see the patients, we always tell them that there is no hurry to treat the prostate cancer unless there are tumors found.

by Dr Fernando J Bianco
Miami urology