Once the prostate swelling is diagnosed as a benign prostate tumor, the treatment options open up to include several approaches and methods of treatment but, if the prostate swelling is diagnosed as prostate cancer then the only solution is to totally remove the prostate gland.

In cases of benign prostate tumor, the doctor can try several lines of treatment before he goes for the surgical approaches. Although the surgical approaches are proven to be of excellent results but it has a major side effect which is that the surgical approach cause male impotence.

Because of this particular and sensitive reason, specialists tend to postpone the surgical treatment as long as they can. And with the discovery of new methods of treatments the choices are wider and with more options included.

Apart from the herbal treatment that turned out to be a scam and the medical treatments that take anywhere between three to six months to see a significant improvement in the case, there are new methods that resemble the effect of surgery but without the side effects.

The first method is called transurethral needle ablation or (TUNA). This method depends on applying a radio wave frequency to the pelvic region targeting the prostate gland to cause shrinkage through the radio waves. The transurethral microwave thermotherapy is another approach that depend on waves too but this time it depend on the thermal effect of the waves instead of depending of the pulses itself like in case of radio wave treatment.

Transurethral electro vaporization is one of the most recent techniques used to treat prostate by inducing a very little electric current. Water induced thermotherapy is another method of treatment depending on the effect of heat on the shrinkage of prostate

Finally, there are now trials to include the laser in the treatment of prostate swelling but most of these treatments are still developing and did not reach the required level of success to replace the surgical techniques completely but they constitute a good replacement in mild cases where the surgical opening or even the endoscopy are not necessary.

People always tend to avoid surgery at any cost because they are always afraid of the complications like virus transmission and other complications and not to mention the potential of occurrence of impotence as a side effect of the surgery. But even with all of these debates and side effects, surgery is still number one choice in cases of complete urine stasis or urethral stones because these cases need immediate response before it propagate into more serious complications