BJUI Mini Reviews - Balancing continence function and oncological outcomes during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP)

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The wide diffusion of the opportunistic PSA-screening caused a signifi cant increase in the number of prostate cancer diagnoses in young man with long life expectancy.

Therefore, the ideal treatment should render patients cancer-free minimizing the potential side effects. Radical prostatectomy (RP) is the recommended surgical treatment for patients with a life expectancy of > 10 years and clinically localized prostate cancers.[ 1 ] The most common side-effects of this procedure are represented by urinary incontinence (UI) and erectile dysfunction. Although the main aim of the robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) procedure remain reaching a complete extirpation of the primary tumour, the patients satisfaction can be negatively affected by the presence of UI and/or erectile dysfunction during the follow-up...View or save the full text Mini Review as a .pdf file

 

 

 

 

Alexander Mottrie , Andrea Gallina , Peter De Wil , David Thüer, Giacomo Novara and Vincenzo Ficarra*

Onze Lieve Vrouw (OLV) Robotic Surgery Institute, Aalst, Belgium, and *Department of Oncologic and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy

 



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