Chronic prostatitis is relatively common, with a lifetime prevalence of 1.8% to 8.2%. Risk factors include conditions that facilitate introduction of bacteria into the urethra and prostate (which also ...

Q: I’m a 47-year-old man with chronic prostatitis. The symptoms vary and come and go. Does this increase my risk of prostate cancer? What therapies might help? A: There is no specific evidence that ...

Oral Antimicrobial Drugs. We found no RCTs comparing oral antimicrobial drugs versus placebo or no treatment. Two RCTs found no significant difference between ciprofloxacin and other quinolones ...

A consistently effective treatment is unlikely to emerge until we gain better understanding of this condition. Although chronic prostatitis (now called "chronic prostatitis-chronic pelvic pain ...

When most men think about their prostate, it's to worry about whether they have prostate cancer or not. But another condition is far more common and plenty painful. Prostatitis involves inflammation ...

(HealthDay)—The symptoms of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) are widespread among men in the United States, according ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Adding the PDE5 inhibitor tadalafil (Cialis) to antibiotic therapy led to significantly greater symptomatic improvement in men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome/chronic prostatitis ...

A randomized controlled trial has questioned the widespread use of the α-blocker alfuzosin as an empirical treatment for chronic prostatitis–chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Instead, only a small ...

Prostatitis, an umbrella term for several conditions that cause prostate inflammation and swelling, affects at least one in four men with prostates at some point in their lives. Although prostate ...