'Probably the leader in the field of keyhole radical prostatectomy.'
from a poll of 40 UK Consultant Urologists published in the Daily Mail on 02/11/2010.
Prostate cancer news
Screening: recently-published
evidence from the Swedish arm of the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer has demonstrated a 44% reduction in prostate
cancer-related deaths over 14 years in patients screened with
the PSA blood test. (Hugosson et al. Lancet Oncology 2010;11:725-732)
Detection: the new urinary prostate cancer biomarker EN2 has a sensitivity and specificity for detecting prostate cancer of 66% and 88%. In the future it will help to more accurately identify men who need prostate biopsy. (Morgan et al. Clin Cancer Res 2011;17:1090-1098)
Treatment: a recent multicentre study of 404,604 patients has found that ' with the exception of men over 80 years....surgery 'provides the most favorable survival rates in most patients'. (Abdollah
et al., Eur Urol 2011;59:88-95)
Potency rates in 500 men having nerve-sparing laparoscopic radical prostatectomy were 100.0%, 91.8%, 82.9%, and 60.0% for men in their 40s, 50s, 60s & 70s and the overall continence rate was 97.4% at 13.5 months. The complication and recurrence rates were 4.2% & 1.2%, respectively.
(Eden
et al., J Endourol 2011;25:815-819)
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