Erectile Dysfunction And cancer surgery

It was extensive believed that impotence resulted when the nerves on either side of the prostate that are responsible for erections were damaged during cancer surgery. As surgical techniques enhanced, doctors were capable to spare the nerves. And when the patient healed, the nerves often regenerated.

But still while the nerves started working again, lot men complain that their sex organs did not. But now with the help of some very unsuccessful mice, scientists think they may have discovered why.

Scientists at the University of Virginia removed the erection-producing nerves in two sets of mice. After the surgery, one group of mice was given sex-stimulating drugs. The other got salt water. The cluster that got only salt water experienced marvelous cell death in the penis.