OBJECTIVE To analyze expectations for sexual life after radical prostatectomy in patients and their partners, and its influence on sexual motivation and bothers in the postoperative period. METHODS A total of 162 patients who underwent retropubic radical prostatectomy and their partners were evaluated. The patients' sexual function, sexual bother and expectations for postoperative sexual life...

We would like add our experience of inguinal hernia (IH) after radical prostatectomy (RP). Sekita et al. found a high incidence of IH of 23.9% after prostate surgery. I commend them on a study with a good comparison group of those patients having a transurethral resection of prostate (TURP). We also looked at IH rates after RP in a retrospective study of 579 patients having radical retropubic p...

OBJECTIVE To compare the short-term outcome of patients undergoing robot-assisted versus open radical prostatectomy. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. SETTING A university teaching hospital in Hong Kong. PATIENTS Twenty consecutive cases having robot-assisted radical prostatectomy were compared with the last 20 cases of open radical prostatectomy (prior to Nov...

PURPOSE To evaluate the influence of timing of salvage and adjuvant radiation therapy on outcomes after prostatectomy for prostate cancer. METHODS Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked database, we identified prostate cancer patients diagnosed during 1995-2007 who had one or more adverse pathological features after prostatectomy. The final cohort of 6,137 eligi...

AIM In order to investigate which types of localized prostate cancer can be treated most effectively by androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), cases of no residual cancer in radical prostatectomy specimens (pT0) after neoadjuvant ADT were analyzed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with localized prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy after neoadjuvant ADT were investigated retrospectiv...

OBJECTIVE After radical retropubic prostatectomy a rise of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) indicates a local recurrent or metastatic disease. If the bone scan shows no apparent bone metastasis, morphological imaging methods like x-ray computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging or transrectal ultrasound often cannot distinguish between postoperative scar and local recurrence. Therefore ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the radiotherapy to prostatic bed in patients with biochemical recurrence for prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyse the results of 292 patients underwent radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer T1-T2 between January 1992 and June 2003, with an average folow-up of 36 months (range 6 months to 12 years). We...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic effect of radical prostatectomy combined with preoperative neoadjuvant hormonal ablation therapy for prostate cancer (PCa). In this study, a total of 31 patients with local PCa underwent radical prostatectomy; of these, 12 patients underwent preoperative hormonal deprivation with a combination of goserelin and flutamide for a period of 5....

Prostate cancer is the most common solidorgan cancer in men and one of the leading causes of death. Radical prostatectomy is the gold standard for the localized cases. Unfortunately, radical prostatectomy is associated with erectile dysfunction and penile shrinkage even under cautious cavernous nerve preservation. To improve the patients’ quality of life and the acceptance of the radical prosta...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of contact laser prostate surgery in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and contact laser prostatectomy was conducted, with an economic evaluation of both procedures. The primary outcome measure was the change in the America...