Treatments after prostate surgery reported in the Journal of Urology

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Treatments after prostate surgery reported in the Journal of Urology

Although primary prostate surgery or radiotherapy is successful in many cases of prostate cancer, some patients suffer a recurrence of the disease, which is most often first detected by a measurable PSA blood test -- affecting 30 perecent to 40 percent of patients after surgery. The presence of cancer potentially outside the prostate after surgery, will affect about a third of men. Two studies in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Urology report on clinical studies of treatment options.

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eurekalert.org — “A first-ever, long-term study of patients who underwent robot-assisted surgery to remove their cancerous prostates found that nearly 87 percent of them had no recurrence of the disease after five years. The findings were reported in this month's issue of the European Urology journal by a team of Henry Ford Hospital researchers led by Mani Menon, M.D., an internationally recognized pioneer in the use of high-precision surgical robots.” View full resource at eurekalert.org