Does Urolift correlate to Prostate Cancer?

Posted by tomf @tomf, Apr 23 8:01am

Back in 2018 my urologist recommended I have the Urolift procedure to help with my slow urination. It was an utter failure in solving my issue. Four years later I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I luckily caught it very early, but it was bad enough (Gleason 4+3=7) that I had to deal with it instead of waiting and watching. Are there any studies underway to see if other men developed prostate cancer after having the Urolift?

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kingfish54 | @kingfish54 | Apr 24 9:20am

Same question! 2018 for Urolift as well. No diagnoses of PC…yet. But PSA went from a routine .4 over my life to to 5.9 last fall, then down to 1.3.
I asked Urologist the same question and he said no, but if I learned anything from C19 and 2020, it’s question everything.

maxvt | @maxvt | Apr 25 10:52am

I had the UroLift procedure a few years prior to my PC diagnosis.

Whether there is a connection between the two is anybody’s guess.

fortunateoldman | @fortunateoldman | Apr 25 11:33am

I had a Urolift implant performed in 3/2019 with modest improvement in symptoms. The urologist who implanted it did a great job and said I would likely get 5 years service life from it. It lasted only 2-1/2 years and had to have it removed and I had a TURP performed by anther urologist which worked great ever since. The TURP also dropped my PSA from 4.5 to 1.7. A Urolift implant can initially cause inflammation for man months which can falsely spike the PSA.

There is no peer reviewed research showing a correlation of a Urolift causing PC. It is likely coincidental.