The walnut-sized gland underneath a man’s bladder that surrounds his urethra is called a prostate. As men get older, it’s common for their prostate glands to continue to grow or enlarge. This ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(TNS) — When Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff was training as a urologist in the early 1990s, he recalled that the advice for surgical incisions was “the bigger the better.” Fast forward to Tuesday, and his two ...

operating room No. 4. But that's no flashlight-wielding spelunker transmitting from the hinterlands. It's the da Vinci Surgical System -- and it's projecting full-color video, magnified 10 times, from ...

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 ...

Prostate cancer is 1 of the 10 most diagnosed diseases for men over 50 years of age. [1] This year, an estimated 217,730 new cases will be diagnosed, and 32,050 deaths will occur secondary to this ...