No More Men Should Die Of Prostate Cancer
Professor Kingsley Ekwueme, a Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon, has said that through the use of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, men will have a better chance of surviving prostate cancer.
Professor Ekwueme, who is the clinical lead surgeon for Urology at GlanClwyd Hospital in Wales, United Kingdom, said that prostate cancer was the most common cancer in men, further adding that a laparoscopic surgery would not lead to impotency and blood loss.
“Essentially, what we do is to cure prostate cancer. It is killing our men and it is the commonest cancer in men. And surgery is the main alternative for the cure of prostate cancer. But traditionally and currently, what a patient will be lucky to get in Nigeria is open surgery, where they cut you from top to bottom, with that there is blood loss and they spend many days in hospital. Now you don’t have to do that with the innovation of our cure procedure introduced in Nigeria for treating prostate cancer which I came to do with my British assistants. One of the main issues with prostate cancer treatment is, apart from blood loss with so many days in hospital, the man will become impotent; urine will be little.”
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“With our cure technique, the patient goes home the next day, potent. This is what many Nigerians – the ones that can afford it come to have done in the UK. So I feel it’s high time we had ours in Nigeria and it’s a landmark surgery that is historic, there was no blood loss. The thing about laparoscopy is that the camera magnifies the image that you can then perform intricate dissection under vision. My ambition is to ensure that no man dies of prostate cancer again, and I want to change that narrative.”
He revealed that he had collaborated with the Reddington Hospital, Lagos, and some of his British assistants to conduct the first set of laparoscopic surgery in Nigeria. He stressed that it was unnecessary for Nigerians to travel abroad anymore to get the surgery done as it was cheaper if done in Nigeria through the laparoscopic procedure. Professor Ekwueme explained that prostate cancer was common in black men and mentioned that being black and one’s family history were major factors that predisposed men to the disease.
