A new paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology has provided detailed information about the design and conduct of an ongoing, prospective, non-randomized trial comparing open radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) to robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) in treatment of localized 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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An article by Hu et al. in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week is getting a lot of media visibility. (See for example the report from the Associated Press.) The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink thinks the article says more about the skills of individual surgeons than it does about the techniques and equipment that they use. … READ MORE …
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Today’s news reports deal with:
In a separate report we have discussed the development of a pre-biopsy risk assessment nomogram that incorporates results from PCA3 testing. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: BMD, bone mineral density, intermittent hormone therapy, osterporosis, RALP, retropubic radical prostatectomy, robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, RRP, testosterone therapy | Leave a comment »
New reports today address:
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: circulating tumor cell, CTC, incontinence, positive surgical margin, preference, prostatectomy, RALP, RRP | 4 Comments »
