Robotic surgery for prostate cancer has several advantages over traditional open surgery including nerve-sparing, less pain, less blood, shorter hospital stay, faster recovery, and fewer side effects ...

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: ...

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 ...

Hearing the words “you have cancer” is uniquely frightening and devastating, and those life-altering words are spoken to ...

Urology, Ramaiah Institute of Nephro-Uro Sciences, Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, explains how robotic and minimally invasive ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the US, aside from skin cancer. About 13% of male Americans will get it — and treatment often comes with the risk of erectile dysfunction. Relief ...

Prostate cancer will impact one in eight men over the course of their lifetimes. For some of the men affected, the disease will mean surgery. The technology involved in that surgery has evolved over ...