In obese prostate cancer patients, robotic-assisted surgery to remove the prostate reduces the risk of blood loss and prolonged hospital stays, a Loyola Medicine study has found. The study by senior ...

Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for clinically localized prostate cancer is associated with lower rates of complications than retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP), including infections ...

The first direct comparison between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open surgery (radical retropubic prostatectomy) has ended in a tie. Early results from an international, randomized, ...

Patients who underwent robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and were discharged the same day had complication and 90-day readmission rates similar to those who had the procedure as inpatients.

Double-Blind, Randomized Trial of Docetaxel Plus Vandetanib Versus Docetaxel Plus Placebo in Platinum-Pretreated Metastatic Urothelial Cancer Completed surveys were obtained from 685 (86%) of 797 ...

Low-dose docetaxel, estramustine and thalidomide followed by maintenance thalidomide in androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC): Final results of a phase II community based study in elderly men No ...

Adding a surgery-specific module to a perioperative telemedicine programme significantly improved functional outcomes after radical prostatectomy, resulting in better urinary continence, a reduced ...

The probability of surgical success with telesurgery for radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses was non-inferior to local robotic surgery in a small randomized trial. The ...

Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) and the use of duloxetine (Cymbalta) may not be the best options for recovering urinary continence after robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy, according to the ...

Patients who underwent NeuroSAFE during nerve-sparing surgery showed improvement in erectile function at 12 months and urinary continence at 3 months. HealthDay News — Use of the NeuroSAFE technique, ...