At 24 months' follow-up, the only phase 3 randomized clinical trial to directly compare functional and oncologic outcomes between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open radical retropubic ...

Robotic and open surgery for prostate cancer had similar rates of adverse effects, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Researchers studied the risks of problems with continence ...

Early results suggest similar quality of life outcomes at 3 months, but further follow-up is now needed from longer 2 year trial The first randomised controlled trial to directly compare robotic ...

Hearing the words “you have cancer” is uniquely frightening and devastating, and those life-altering words are spoken to ...

Approximately 14 percent of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lifetimes, according to the National Institutes of Health. Radiation therapy traditionally has been a ...

The most common surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. This surgery involves taking out the entire prostate gland, some lymph nodes and other nearby tissue, like the seminal vesicles ...

Prostate cancer patients who undergo radical prostatectomy may see better outcomes at teaching hospitals than at non-academic medical institutions, according to a study led by researchers at Henry ...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy as salvage therapy after radical prostatectomy was well tolerated. Toxic effects were comparable to a historical cohort of patients receiving conventionally fractionated ...

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 ...