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Post Treatment Fertility For Men

For Loss Of Prostate And Seminal Vesicles

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If you have had prostate or bladder cancer, surgery was probably done to remove your prostate gland and the seminal vesicles (the organs that produce most of the fluid for semen). This means that your body no longer makes semen. Also, the ends of the vas deferens (small tubes running from each testicle to the prostate) are generally cut during this type of cancer surgery, like they are for a vasectomy, so there is no way for the sperm to get outside your body. With enough mental or physical sexual excitement, you should still be able to have the pleasurable feeling of orgasm (climax), but it will be a "dry" orgasm.

If there is no semen coming from the penis during orgasm, conceiving a child during sex is not an option. But there are ways that sperm can be taken out and used to fertilize an egg. An infertility specialist can take sperm from the epididymis (the tiny tubes where sperm cells ripen at the top of the testicles) or use TESE, as described above.



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