Single-port robotic surgery through a single small incision may have advantages over multi-port surgery for postoperative recovery.

Dr. Samadi, Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, is cautious regarding men's faith in robotic prostatectomy ...

The decision to undergo radical prostatectomy, or any treatment for prostate cancer, is of course not an easy one. Patients are usually offered a tremendous amount of information from their doctors, ...

WORCESTER — UMass Memorial Medical Center has adopted an alternative technique to performing a prostatectomy to treat prostate cancer that results in better outcomes for men and quicker recovery times ...

A recent prospective, randomized study comparing the outcomes of laparoscopic and robot-assisted prostatectomy provides some of the best contemporary evidence of the superiority of the robotic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Robot surgery for prostate cancer lowered the rate of urinary complications compared with hands-on surgery in a new Italian study. While the study was small and contradicts ...

Feb. 21, 2006 — -- Lewis Weitzner found out he had prostate cancer last September, when he was 51 years old. Although the many options available to men in his situation can be confusing, deciding ...

Prostate cancer patients could soon escape debilitating incontinence thanks to a pioneering robotic operation. The procedure would be life-changing to the four out of five men who experience leakage ...

February 18, 2011 — There is a sharp learning curve with robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP). Surgeons only reached "expert-level" results after undertaking more than 1600 ...

Dr. Michael Grabowski was confident in his surgical abilities and thought he didn’t need help with his specialty, especially from a robot. “I did thousands of surgeries,” said Grabowski, physician ...

Stephen Summers, MD specializes in both men and women with a variety of different urologic conditions. I care for patients with most urologic disorders and have a special interest in the management of ...