Side Effects After Prostate Radiation Therapy

Bowel problems are one possibility.

Side effects after prostate radiation therapy.

Radiation therapy can irritate the rectum. Some of the potential late effects of radiation to the prostate include. Most men will be sterile after radiation treatment for prostate cancer. This helps minimize side effects of external beam radiation treatment.

Radiation therapy also called x ray therapy uses high levels of radiation to kill prostate cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing while minimizing damage to healthy cells. Talk to your oncology team about sperm banking if you wish to have a child in the future. Potential side effects of external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer may include. You ll have the catheters removed after your last treatment.

The risk of long term problems after radiation therapy is very low less than 5 percent. These may include proctitis rectal inflammation cystitis bladder inflammation urinary or rectal bleeding narrowing of the rectum or urethra chronic diarrhea or urinary frequency or urgency or development of an ulcer in the rectum. However these radiotherapy side effects are less common and occur only when the radiation damages your body.