Another article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine addresses the rapid increase in the number of robot-assisted surgical procedures carried out in the US between 2005 and 2008. … READ MORE …
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A newly published report provides initial information from a pilot study on the feasibility of laser dissection of the neurovascular bundles (NVBs) during robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) as a treatment for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Data presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society suggest that preoperative, endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (eMRI) of the prostate may help urologic surgeons to make decisions about whether to carry out nerve-sparing or non-nerve-sparing surgery in patients with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Today’s news reports include comments on studies dealing with:
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Data to be published in the May 2010 issue of the Journal of Urology are going to make a lot of urologists rather less than happy about the implications for the use of radical prostatectomy as first-line treatment for prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new analysis of the outcomes of different types of radical prostatectomy appears to show no difference between the patients’ clinical outcomes following laparoscopic (including non-robot-assisted and robot-assisted) categories of surgery (LRP/RALP) and traditional “open” radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) when used to treat Medicare patients of 66 years or older. … READ MORE …
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Today’s news reports include commentary on studies dealing with:
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Many readers may be interested in an article by Gina Kolata in Saturday’s New York Times on the rapid uptake of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) for the first-line treatment prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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In today’s (slightly belated) news reports, we comment on studies dealing with:
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Today’s news reports address:
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In today’s new reports we summarize information from recent papers dealing with:
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A study from the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden has provided some concrete evidence that — with an appropriately high caseload and experience — robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) may, in fact, be associated with a significant reduction in surgical complications by comparison with open, radical retropubic prostatecomy (RRP). … READ MORE …
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There are three fairly significant news reports today dealing with the following issues:
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In today’s news reports we comment on articles dealing with:
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: elderly, mortality rates, Partin tables, RALP, salvage | 7 Comments »
The issue of complete continence after radical prostatectomy is a subject that few in the urologic surgery community have addressed in thorough detail. However, a new article based on data from a single-institution series of patients at the University of Chicago may have finally opened the doors to some honesty about this topic. … READ MORE …
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