At the two-year mark, 17 percent of those who had undergone surgery reported urinary incontinence.
But it requires a five-inch-long slash across the abdomen and often results in urinary incontinence and erectile disfunction.
Tuesday, the pugnacious company announced that it has yet another prospect: trospium, a drug that would treat urinary incontinence.
The same drug is expected to be approved under a different brand name to treat urinary incontinence later this year.
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Roche has new treatments for urinary incontinence, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Cytori has also developed a Celution system, which has completed two clinical trials, for applications in cardiovascular disease, wound healing, gastronomical intestinal disorders and urinary incontinence.
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As with combination therapy, the risk of fractures is lower, but there is an increased risk of stroke, gallbladder disease, deep vein thrombosis and urinary incontinence.
Studies have shown that the benefit of prostate cancer screening is uncertain and further tempered by the complications from treatment, which can include impotence and urinary incontinence.
They are currently being sold for cosmetic and reconstructive procedures and research as well as being evaluated for a range of applications, including heart attack, urinary incontinence, renal failure and liver disease.
While these tests can detect cancer, they also can produce false positive results that lead to unnecessary and uncomfortable biopsies and treatments that carry undesirable side effects such as impotence and urinary incontinence.
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Data from the Women's Health Initiative and other large-scale trials suggest estrogen plus progestin therapy moderately reduces risk for fractures but increases the chance of developing strokes, dementia, deep vein thrombosis, urinary incontinence and gallbladder disease.
The antibiotic Zyvox and the urinary-incontinence drug Detrol, both almost mothballed before he took over Pharmacia, are now bestsellers.
At Pharmacia he made the urinary-incontinence pill Detrol a bestseller.
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