Date Issued February 28, 2019 Audience People with breast cancer or those at high risk for breast cancer who are considering the surgical removal of one or both breasts (mastectomy) using robotically-assisted surgery People considering robotically-assisted surgery for the prevention or treatment of other cancers Health care providers who perform robotically-assisted procedures as part of cancer prevention or treatment...Read More

  Low-risk patients increasingly undergoing regular monitoring rather than immediate treatment. Of the approximately 24,000 Canadians diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, about half have a slow-growing form that poses little risk to their health. A new study from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa shows that men with these slow-growing tumours are increasingly avoiding unnecessary and potentially...Read More

  Otherwise healthy men with advanced prostate cancer may benefit greatly from surgery, but many with this diagnosis have no need for it. These conclusions were reached by researchers after following a large group of Scandinavian men with prostate cancer for 29 years. The results are now published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The research findings now presented are from...Read More