PMID: 20104003Jan 28, 2010Paper

Symptoms of prostate cancer that required treatment in the terminal stage for two years

Hinyokika kiyo. Acta urologica Japonica
Toshiyuki NakamuraHiroshi Okazaki

Abstract

We conducted a study of the symptoms of prostate cancer that required medical treatment in terminal patients intermittently hospitalized over a period of two years. We examined the medical records of 54 out of 55 patients who died of prostate cancer between January 2000 and December 2008. The period from the initial visit to death was between 6 and 179 months (median : 48 months). The frequency of hospitalization per patient within two years before death was between 0 and 12 times (median : 3 times). The leading causes of hospitalization (a total of 191 times) were pain (44 times), a poor physical condition (30 times), hematuria (23 times), cancer treatment (22 times), anemia (18 times), and urinary retention (12 times). Thirty-two cases required the use of opioids (0.5 to 25 months before death, median : 5 months), 25 cases required blood transfusion (0.5 to 24, median : 5 months), 17 cases required long-term catheterization (0.5 to 16, median : 4 months), 10 cases required external beam radiation (2 to 25, median : 15 months), 6 cases required percutaneous nephrostomy (0.5 to 7, median : 2 months), three cases required transurethral resection of the prostate (3 to 23, median : 23 months), and two cases required fracture fixat...Continue Reading

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