Why is the prostate removed?

Prostatectomy: Prostate is removed because of benign prostate hyperplasia causing urinary obstruction to relieve obstruction carcinoma of prostate in some cases.

Prostate removal: The most common reason to remove the prostate is for localized prostate cancer. The procedure is called radical prostatectomy. However if a male patient has a bladder cancer that requires removal of the bladder, generally a procedure that removes both the bladder and the prostate is done.

Prostate removal: The two most common reasons to remove the prostate would be for surgical treatment of prostate cancer and for severe obstruction caused by benign prostatic hypertrophy (bph), although BPH is often first treated with trials of medication and or partial removal of prostatic tissue.