The case of robot-assisted surgery
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Tthis week’s issue of New England Journal of Medicine provides an article that addresses the rapid increase in the number of robot-assisted surgical procedures carried out in the US between 2005 and 2008. The article focuses in particular in the significant ...
Revolutionary new tool to fight prostate cancer
Saturday, August 14th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A BRENTWOOD hospital has become one of the first in the UK to use a revolutionary new surgical instrument which helps patients with prostate cancer. The Prosurgics free hand robotic camera controller makes key hole surgery on the prostate more precise, improving ...
Surgery better than radiation, hormone treatments for localized prostate cancer
Saturday, August 7th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | 1 Comment »Researchers at University of California, San Franciscosay (UCFS) the differences among therapies were more prominent at higher levels of cancer risk. They suggest that in many cases surgery should play a greater role in treatment strategies for patients with prostate ...
Researchers recommends robotic prostatectomy over traditional open surgery method
Friday, August 6th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | 1 Comment »A group of investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) shows new evidence supporting the safety of the robotic radical prostatectomy procedure - including what is believed to be one of the lowest complication rates to date. Previous ...
Pilot study suggests laser may reduce prostate surgery’s sexual side effects
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »The procedure of removing the cancer-affected gland is estimated to cause long-term sexual dysfunction in half of men. Therefore, one of the challenges of prostatectomy is removing the cancer-affected gland without side effects. A new research by urologic surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian ...
New surgical procedure for prostate cancer uses natural orifices
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Removing the prostate is a common treatment for patients with prostate cancer.Recently, urologists at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, suggest that the latest advances in the surgical treatment of the disease involve using the body's own natural orifices as access points instead ...
Implications of detection and characteristics of primary circulating prostate cells for surgical treatment of prostate cancer
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A recent study at Hospital de Carabineros de Chile, Chile, had two objectives: 1. To determine the frequency of primary circulating prostate cells (CPCs) in men with prostate cancer at the time of diagnosis, the association with micrometastasis, sub-classification for CD82 ...
Radical prostatectomy in obese patients
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks, prostatectomy | 6 Comments »Previous studies have reported obesity as a risk factor for reduced disease-specific survival, increased positive surgical margin (PSM) and biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in patients with prostate cancer. A recent study at University of Toronto, Canada, aimed to ...
Statins associated with lower cancer recurrence following prostatectomy
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »According to researchers at Duke University Medical Center., men who use statins to lower their cholesterol are 30 percent less likely to see their prostate cancer come back after surgery compared to men who do not use the drugs. Researchers ...
The predictive value of stage, grade and PSA for recurrence after radical prostatectomy as a function of surgeon experience
Monday, June 28th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »In a new analysis of their database of over 8,000 patients treated at three major prostate cancer centers, a sientific team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has now investigated the association between biological predictors of progression (stage, Gleason grade and ...