Abstract
Prostate cancer remains a pressing public health concern worldwide. In 2009, more than 192,000 men were diagnosed with the disease, and more than 27,000 men died from it in the United States alone [1]. The advent of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, coupled with a rising incidence of needle biopsies in asymptomatic men, has contributed to prostate cancer becoming the most common cancer in men in the United States [1, 2] and other parts of the world [3]. With increasing evidence of improved long-term survival and progression-free outcomes [4-10], radical prostatectomy has become increasingly popular as the treatment of first choice for organ-confined disease.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Complications of Laparoscopic and Robotic Urologic Surgery |
Publisher | Springer New York |
Pages | 211-231 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781607616757 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Anatomy
- Cancer
- Continence
- Margins
- Potency
- Prostate
- Prostatectomy
- Robotic