prostatectomy

(Wiley-Blackwell) 91 percent of men who have a prostate cancer operation can retain their ability to orgasm if the surgery is carried out without removing both sets of nerves that surround the prostate gland like a hammock.

American researchers who studied 408 patients who received robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy found this figure went down to 82 percent if one side was removed and 61 percent if there was little or no nerve sparing.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Men with locally advanced prostate cancer had a 20-year disease-specific survival of 81% following radical prostatectomy, data from a large clinical series showed.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Adoption of robotic technology fueled rapid growth in the use of radical prostatectomy at a time when the incidence of prostate cancer decreased, investigators reported here.

(Wiley-Blackwell) 70 percent men who received androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) after surgery to remove their prostate gland gained significant weight in the first year, putting on an average of 4.2kg.

Researchers studied the recorded weights of 132 men who underwent radical prostatectomy between 1988 and 2009 at four US Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in California, Georgia and North Carolina, before and after they received ADT.

(Duke University Medical Center) Obese white men who have both diabetes and prostate cancer have significantly worse outcomes following radical prostatectomy than do men without diabetes who undergo the same procedure, according to research from Duke University Medical Center appearing in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Men who were taking statins at the time of radical prostatectomy had a 30% reduction in prostate cancer recurrence, data reported here showed.

NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Patients undergoing robotic radical prostatectomy had virtually none of the pain associated with a conventional urethral catheter when surgeons used an investigational bladder drain, a small pilot study showed.