Radical Prostatectomy

After receiving intense hormone therapy prior to radical prostatectomy, one-fifth of men with high-risk localized prostate cancer had no tumor or residual tumor smaller than 5 mm following surgery, a study found.

Single-center study reveals that robot-assisted radical prostatectomy is associated with superior biochemical recurrence-free survival and a lower positive surgical margin rate.

Among men undergoing radical prostatectomy for Gleason score 6 prostate cancer, men older than 65 are more likely than younger men to have higher grade or stage disease found at the time of surgery, a study found.

Radical prostatectomy (RP) may provide small very long-term reductions in death risk compared with observation for patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa), according to investigators. In an extended follow-up of 731 participants in the randomized Prostate Cancer Intervention versus Observation Trial (PIVOT), men assigned to undergo RP had an 8% reduction in the relative…

Very high initial PSA levels in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP) for high-risk clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) are associated with worse oncologic outcomes, according to a new study. Men with initial PSA levels of 50 ng/mL or higher have significantly worse rates of biochemical recurrence (BCR)-free survival, metastasis-free survival (MFS), and cancer-specific survival (CSS)…

Men with anterior and posterior prostate tumors have similar rates of biochemical failure, metastasis, and cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy, a study found.