Dr. Guru answers the question: 'What Is A Radical Retropubic Prostectomy?' March 16, 2009 -- Question: What is a radical retropubic prostatectomy? Answer: A radical retropubic prostatectomy is one of ...

At 24 months' follow-up, the only phase 3 randomized clinical trial to directly compare functional and oncologic outcomes between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open radical retropubic ...

There is ongoing clinical need to improve estimates of disease outcome in prostate cancer. Machine learning (ML) approaches to pathologic diagnosis and prognosis are a promising and increasingly used ...

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 ...

Radical prostatectomy has maintained a cardinal role in the treatment of localized prostate cancer. Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) has been introduced as a less invasive surgical ...

From 2004-2009 to 2016-2020, the proportion of patients found to have high-risk and intermediate-risk prostate cancer after upfront radical prostatectomy increased from 16% to 27% and from 55% to 60%, ...

A 2-step decision analytic model consisting of a decision tree-informed Markov structure was used to estimate lifetime outcomes in older patients with prostate cancer. The P-score reclassifies a ...

Investigators evaluated the benefit of leuprorelin immediately after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer in patients with undetectable PSA levels.

Stereotactic body radiotherapy as salvage therapy after radical prostatectomy was well tolerated. Toxic effects were comparable to a historical cohort of patients receiving conventionally fractionated ...