It will likely be evident to most well-informed prostate cancer patients, support group leaders, and advocates that a man with low-risk, early stage prostate cancer (“favorable histology”) is potentially a good candidate for prostate cancer surgery. … READ MORE …
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There has been a lot of media noise about a poster presented at the Genitourinary Cancer Symposium. The poster supposedly suggests that it takes 1,600 robot-assisted procedures (RALP) to be really good at this form of surgery. … READ MORE …
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A report from the University of California San Diego says that robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) appears to be a safe and effective treatment for localized prostate cancer in men who are HIV-positive but are taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and have undetectable viral loads (< 50). … READ MORE …
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There has been much discussion of whether surgical outcomes following robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) are comparable to those observed after open surgery. The 5-year outcome data from the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit may help us to make such a determination. … READ MORE …
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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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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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