European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 treating prostate disorders by Jane Brody new York times the or disorders of which sooner later afflict virtually every Man who lives Long Are yielding to improved treatments with far less especially of a dreaded Side effect that has Long kept Many victims from seeking the most effective As the new methods Are Learned by urologists throughout United states deaths from cancer of the now the second leading cancer killer in adult should and the suffering of men with benign prostate enlargement could be reduced without hospitalization and the hazards of conventional despite continuing difficulties in developing methods for Early detection of prostate cancer and in determining the causes of benign urologists interviewed recently expressed excite ment about recent Progress in diagnosis and for refined surgical techniques Are making it possible to per form curative surgery for Prostatic can cer without causing which afflicts up to 90 percent of men treated with the Standard faced with the Prospect of Many men and their urological surgeons nearly All of whom Are also men now choose conservative treatments or no treatment at taking the Chance that the which is often might never be in the Case of the far More com Mon problem of prostate clinical researchers Are experimenting enlarged prostate can press on ure interfering with new surgery for prostate cancer avoids damage to tiny nerve on rec Tal thus pre serving with a a highly intense Light beam that can be used in a doctors office under local anaesthesia to blood Lessly de stroy excess tissue that can interfere with urination and sexual and for those with infections of the which can afflict Young As Well As older better diagnostic techniques Are revealing treatable causes of what were once unknown for sexually transmitted chlamydia now the nations leading venereal Are also now known to cause half or More of prostate urologists today routinely test for this which responds to Antibiotic but Progress in understanding prostate As Well As other diseases does not always proceed in the expected for researchers at the Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine have recently shown that longheld beliefs that hormonal f changes that accompany aging cause the prostate to enlarge Are probably based on the new info they have abandoned proposed methods of prevention and treatment that they now believe Are not Likely to work and in going Back to the drawing Board in search of new the Center of All this research attention is a Chestnu sized gland with limited function but a strategic the prostate produces the fluid that helps to nourish and transport sperm cells As they without Prostatic a Man is almost certainly although his sexual ability and enjoyment need not be pro Stag Landing were first discovered in the pros Tate hence their but this gland is hardly the Only source of these hormone like which Are ubiquitous in the the prostate gland surrounds the the tube that carries urine from the bladder through the Penis for and herein lies the prob when this gland it can press on the urethra and impede the flow of if this can Lead to bladder and kidney permanent kidney dam age and total urinary necessitating emergency prostate enlargement can also cause pain during erection or thus interfering with sexual pleasure and women have a vestigial evolutionary equivalent of the prostate Small chunks of glandular tissue along the Accord ing to Joseph a urologist affiliated with the new York medical congestion of this tissue is thought to be a Factor in women who suffer from recurrent infections of the urinary in a Young the prostate is tiny it begins to enlarge at puberty in response to stimulation by the male sex according to Marc a Uro Logist at Beth Israel Hospital and new York University medical it is nor Mal for Prostatic tissue to continue to grow As a Man gets How much and How fast it grows seems to be genetically deter he and whether the growth interferes with urinary or sexual function depends on which part of the gland is in some a very Large prostate May cause few if any symptoms As Long As the tissue does not press on the but even a minor enlargement in the wrong place can cause severe impairment of urinary fun symptoms of preg in Fathe Stobe by Joy Schaleben Lewis new York times when Michael Finley was an expectant a he gained was easily took afternoon naps and had excruciating but the Day his daughter was the backaches he started losing weight and was soon Back to his energetic it was the 34yearold Milwaukee writer birth not Only ended my wife it ended mine Finley physical and psychological reactions to his wife pregnancy were not research has shown that a number of expectant fathers join expectant mothers in experiencing signs of according to Jacqueline a nurse and research scientist at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee school of Clinton recently completed her own three year study of the known As which comes from the French word meaning to Brood or Louvade symptoms generally include morning de increased weight gain and cravings for particular Clinton study touched base with expectant fathers throughout the women pregnancies and extended to six weeks after her work was supported by an Grant from the Federal Public health service division of study found that symptoms among the men paralleled those among the pregnant for nausea occurred in the first trimester and backaches were common in the last Over 10 inter views of one to two the majority of the men reported weight gains ranging from 2 to 15 pounds possibly the result of their following diets similar to the they All lost weight in the four weeks after the babies were weight Clinton was correlated with the increased stress and sleep loss reported by the men during this distended Abdomens were reported by a hand Ful of Clinton said these could also be related to changes in eating patterns the High protein diets followed by expectant fathers can produce excessive the majority of the men reported weight gains ranging from 2 to 15 pounds possibly the result of their following diets similar to the she said she believes that Louvade is a natural Way for fathers to express a Bond of sympathy with the expectant Mother and a change in social Jese Cavenar a professor of psychiatry at the Duke University medical Center in who has studied Louvade for 10 said there Are any number of psychodynamics explanations for it represents an identification with the preg Nant he Freud Felt that Louvade was a Way for a father to establish his that if society sees that a father has pregnancy symptoms Sim Ilar to Bis then that establishes that this Man the Cavenar said he knows of no physiological reasons As to Why Louvade symptoms but he added that he did not consider breast tenderness and leg which have been reported in rare to be symptoms of he said he feels that they result from undetermined physiological Clinton said that in nonindustrial societies Louvade takes ritual in parts of Africa and new expectant fathers might Don special eat special limit the amount of work they do and even suckle the baby right after she such rituals not Only Are sup posed to give magical Protection to the they also serve As a Means of claiming Clinton study involved 147 expectant fathers age 18 to 45 who had no disabilities or any chronic physical or mental the recruited from the Milwaukee were selected to the general population of men in Mil Waukee county in terms of occupy ethnicity and other demographic they were matched with a control group 66 men who were not expectant about 90 percent of the expectant fathers reported multiple Louvade insomnia was most often followed by weight gain and Back aches and increased Many of the men did not Tell the women about their participation in the and were reluctant to Tell anyone about their after she who Are they going to Tell about experiencing morning sickness the Guys sitting next to them at the bar they suffer in when Michael Finley decided to join the Louvade he said he thought it amusing that he might develop symptoms paralleling his about the fourth it no longer was so he i had become Short tempered not with my but with during the entire nine he i was essentially pacing outside the delivery