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If you have a prostatectomy, does your willy still work?
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Depends. Impotence is a known complication/side effect of a prostatectomy (taking out the prostate). Rates vary, depending on how the prostatectomy is done.
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Brachiotomy is a radiation treatmment by the insertion of tiny radioactice pellets
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I think you might mean brachytherapy. It's radiation to treat the cancer. But instead of being zapped by some big beam of radiation, dozens of tiny radioactive pellets, like you mentioned, are inserted/embedded into the prostate. The patient positioned on the operating table, an imaginary grid is overlaid on the prostate, and the little pellets are individually inserted into the prostate at specific coordinates. A urological PA friend of mine likens it to playing "Battleship."