Cancer specialists explain what a prostatectomy is and who might need one - Treatment for prostate cancer has come a long way - here’s what to know ...

PET/CT offers excellent accuracy in the staging of high-risk prostate cancer (PCa), yet outcomes-based evidence of the clinical benefit remains limited. We aimed to determine whether the rates of ...

An ultrasound-based treatment for prostate cancer showed better safety and operative metrics versus robotic radical prostatectomy in an early analysis of a first-ever randomized trial. After 6 months ...

Not all surgeries for prostate cancer are the same. Depending on the location and size of your prostate tumor, a surgeon may recommend different ways to remove it. In some cases, they also remove ...

Objective: To review the current medical literature on robotic prostatectomy (RP) and report clinical outcomes of this newly developed technique. Data Source: A MEDLINE search was performed using the ...

"Robotic prostatectomy has superior or at least equal oncologic efficacy and complication rates compared to open prostatectomy," writes Michael O. Koch, MD, from the Indiana University School of ...

Salvage Radiotherapy for Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer After Prostatectomy The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All relationships are ...

Low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy (LI-SWT) did not improve erectile dysfunction compared to a sham procedure in radical prostatectomy patients. Fewer than 20% of men in the LI-SWT group ...

Although first described in 1991, 2 laparoscopic radical prostatectomy received little attention until reports from France in 2000 showed not only the feasibility of the procedure but also some ...

Radical prostatectomy remains the gold-standard treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer. Although cancer control is the primary goal, secondary outcomes such as continence recovery are of ...

Obesity in itself is not a contraindication to radical prostatectomy, but it remains a risk factor for poor overall survival. Although obesity increases the technical complexity of radical ...

Background A 61-year-old male presented with a history of gradually rising PSA over several years. His PSA had increased from 3.3 to 7 ng/ml over 3 years. Investigations Digital rectal examination, ...