After prostatic cancer has been diagnosed, we do radical prostatectomy where appropriate. If it is too late, and there is urinary obstruction, we put in an indwelling catheter and start hormonal therapy, or we use orchidectomy or radiation (if there is no metastatic spread). If, after-one of these treatments, we have got rid of the obstruction, we do not resect the prostate. On the other hand, if the obstruction continues, we do a transurethral prostate resection and continue with the cancer treatment.

Between 1963 and 1984 we did transurethral resection on 127 cases with the preoperative diagnosis of prostate cancer. In 145 cases with a preoperative diagnosis of benign hypertrophy pathological studies showed in situ cancer cells. In these cases we did not apply treatment for cancer.

Keywords: prostate cancer, transurethral resection