Dr Amir Khan
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9,955 appearances
22 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
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And so you end up going to the toilet more often because your bladder isn't emptying properly.
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And it's getting used to, again, small volumes of urine being there all the time and so telling you to go.
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You should always go and see your doctor because, yes, the most common thing is this benign prostatic hypertrophy, which is just benign growth of the prostate with age.
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But there is a small chance it could be prostate cancer.
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So we need to check your PSA blood test to see whether that is.
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That doesn't go up in BPH.
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It does go up in prostate cancer.
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So that will help us decide.
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So a third of men will get better without any treatment on their own.
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Their bladder will just get used to it.
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You retrain the bladder and then they get used to it.
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A third of men need medical treatment.
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So we can give them tablets which we can either stop the growth of the prostate or even shrink it.
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There's two different types of tablets.
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They all take about a month to three months to work.
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So there's nothing quick about that.
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But not all men respond to that either and their symptoms continue.
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And then you can do surgery.
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We call it a TURP, a T-U-R-P, transurethral resection of the prostate, which sounds horrific.
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You put a tube up the penis, up the urethra, and you scrape away at the prostate to make it smaller.
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