Is incontinence always a result of prostate surgery?
Well… the most common cause of incontinence in men is prostate surgery. However, most men who have prostate surgery are not incontinent afterward. About 1% of men who are treated surgically for BPH have incontinence. A much higher percentage of men who have surgery for prostate cancer have may have some degree of involuntary leakage afterward. Some studies report the condition in as much as 50% of men undergoing radical prostate removal. The rate of severe incontinence is less than 10% in most reported series.
