BPH Patients Experience Best-in-Class Symptom Relief with Rezūm Therapy, Latest Study Shows

So, you’re ready to take the next step to treat your benign prostatic hyperplasia. (That’s the medical term for BPH or enlarged prostate.) Maybe your medications are no longer working. Or maybe your symptoms have you up all night going to the restroom. But where do you start in looking at your options? 

First, you should know that BPH is very common in men. In fact, it affects half of all men by age 60. And it affects up to 90 percent of men by age 85.¹ Medications to treat BPH may not work for many. Or many men don’t like the side effects.² And some procedures only treat the symptoms, not the BPH. That leaves many men searching for alternative treatements for enlarged prostate.

Rezūm Water Vapor Therapy is a BPH treatment that can be done in your doctor’s office. It uses water vapor, or steam, to shrink enlarged prostates.^3,4 Shrinking the prostate can relieve your symptoms. But how long does it last? 
 
Recently, a clinical trial looked at how long Rezūm Therapy results last in BPH patients out to five years. The trial showed that Rezūm Therapy significantly relieved their symptoms.⁵ It also showed that the enlarged prostate treatment results lasted five years for the majority of patients. Third, the trial found that Rezūm Therapy improved their general quality of life.  

Following the Rezūm procedure, some of the following short-term side effects may occur: painful urination, blood in the urine, blood in the semen, frequent urination, inability to urinate or completely empty the bladder, and need for short-term catheterization. Most of the events typically resolve within one to three weeks after the procedure, but there is a possibility some of these effects may continue for longer periods of time.

Clinical trials are important in healthcare. They help us find out if new therapies are safe and effective. Often, a clinical trial helps us learn if a new treatment is more effective and/or has fewer side effects than another treatment.⁶  
 
Most doctors rely on clinical trial results and articles in peer-reviewed journals to evaluate treatment options and ensure they maintain quality standards for their patients.

The Rezūm Therapy II trial followed 135 men at 15 sites in the U.S. It looked at patients’ BPH symptoms, their quality of life and if they sought other BPH treatments following the Rezūm Therapy procedure. The trial tracked them for five years after they received Rezūm Therapy.

The trial found that patients had long-term BPH symptom relief and improved quality of life. In the five years after Rezūm Therapy, only 4.4% of patients had another surgery for BPH symptoms.⁵ 

A world-renowned urologist, Dr. Kevin McVary, is a leader in BPH treatments and the principal investigator of the Rezūm Therapy clinical trial. He uses Rezūm Therapy in his practice and recently treated a patient who was also a busy physician. The physician had severe BPH symptoms and was seeking enlarged prostate treatment. Medications weren’t working for him. “He had Rezūm Therapy and was back to work in his busy office practice. He was taking care of his own patients in the OR after a weekend,” said McVary. “He was also able to stop taking all of his BPH medications. This was a nice outcome and showed the fast recovery found with Rezūm Therapy in this patient.” Individual results can and do vary.