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 ...

With Men’s Health Week approaching, it is a good time to encourage open discussions about various health conditions, particularly prostate health. Driven by embarrassment, misconceptions, and a lack ...

Dr. Robert Uzzo answers the question: 'Who Gets Robotic/Laparoscopic Surgery?' Jan. 01, 2009 -- Question: Who is an appropriate candidate for a laparoscopic or robot-assisted prostatectomy? Answer: ...

When it comes to treatment for prostate cancer, men have a range of options, from active surveillance to radiation to surgery, just to name a few. Which approach to choose is a highly personal ...

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

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Robot surgery for prostate cancer lowered the rate of urinary complications compared with hands-on surgery in a new Italian study. While the study was small and contradicts ...

May 2, 2012 — Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) is at least equivalent to other surgical approaches in terms of outcome in the short term, and might provide advantages such as ...

Forty-two percent of websites that mentioned robotic prostatectomy did not mention associated risks, according to a study in Health Affairs. Researchers studied internet marketing of robotic surgery ...

Comorbid Diseases Lessen Survival Benefit of Aggressive PCa Therapy Growth in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) use especially pronounced among surgeons at urban hospitals. Robot-assisted ...

Less-experienced surgeons experience a lower perioperative morbidity rate and sound early oncologic outcomes with robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, compared with other surgical ...