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 ...

When it comes to treatment for prostate cancer, men have a range of options, from active surveillance to radiation to surgery, just to name a few. Which approach to choose is a highly personal ...

A surgeon in London has successfully removed a patient’s prostate in Gibraltar using a ...

The arrival of robotics in surgery has been a roller coaster ride, offering another lesson in how technology in healthcare, unlike most industries, faces challenges to show it’s better than the status ...

CT scan in a patient 1 month following robotic prostatectomy Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy is associated with higher costs than open radical prostatectomy at the index hospitalization for the ...

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 ...

Dr. Robert Uzzo answers the question: 'Who Gets Robotic/Laparoscopic Surgery?' Jan. 01, 2009 -- Question: Who is an appropriate candidate for a laparoscopic or robot-assisted prostatectomy? Answer: ...

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 ...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating a major milestone, having completed its 1,000th prostatectomy using the cutting-edge da Vinci Xi robotic-assisted system at Chorley ...

When James Choate-Deeds was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he joined a clinical trial for robotic-assisted surgery Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE ...