Men with localized prostate cancer (PCa) who undergo prostatectomy report worse urinary incontinence through 5 years compared with other management options, according to new study findings published in JAMA. Patients with unfavorable-risk disease also report worse sexual function at 5 years after surgery compared with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Karen E. Hoffman, MD, MHSc,...Read More

  In 2010, Paul Elliott, then 55, a high school teacher at a public school in Gonzales, California, checked into a hospital to have his prostate removed. When he awoke, he had no feeling in his shoulders and arms. During the eight-hour operation, his body had been suspended in a steep head-down position to accommodate the positioning of the robot used to...Read More

  The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just four years earlier. But now the high-tech helper is under scrutiny over reports of problems, including several deaths that may be linked with it and the high cost of using...Read More