Both robot-assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP) and laser enucleation of the prostate (LEP) are safe and effective surgical options for large-volume benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), according to a ...

Source: Getty Images Using the US nationwide Epic Cosmos database, investigators analyzed over 420,000 real-world BPH procedures performed from 2014 to 2024. In a real-world study, minimally invasive ...

—Findings from a recent study suggest that management of prostate cancer has improved in the last 2 decades, including a lower frequency of pathologic grade group 1 prostatectomies. The number of ...

The most common surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. This surgery involves taking out the entire prostate gland, some lymph nodes and other nearby tissue, like the seminal vesicles ...

Patients who undergo single-port robotic prostate or kidney surgery tend to have less blood loss and postoperative pain and shorter hospital stays compared with patients undergoing multi-port robotic ...

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 ...

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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 addition of apalutamide to androgen deprivation therapy before and after surgery improved outcomes among men with ...

Doctors sometimes recommend radiation therapy after a prostatectomy for cancer that has a high risk of returning. Radiation therapy is also used to treat cancer that has returned after surgery. If ...