Seeds continue to be utilised in his practice with outstanding results in the appropriately chosen patients. Generally, these patients are people with a low-risk prostate cancer, with minimal urinary symptoms, in middle-age, particularly those wanting a less invasive form of therapy and a very rapid recovery. Recently he did a review of his cases where …
Recently we reviewed a group of patients that I had treated between 1998 and 2000. We followed the patients up for a minimum of 10 years and compared it to a similar surgical series. Results were outstanding and in truth out-performed my surgical results in the very high-risk population by about 20% ( these results …
I continue to perform open radical prostatectomy in several situations. Firstly, where robotic prostatectomy is difficult to perform, such as a patient who has extensive adhesions. Robotic is also not the best option where the cancer is extremely extensive and tactile sensation is beneficial. Having performed over 3,500 open radical prostatectomies I have noticed that, …
Robotic results In my hands there is a 96.5% clearance rate in the eradication of early stage prostate cancers and 86% clearance rate in overall cancers. Continence Incontinence after surgery is a major concern shared by many patients. In my hands, 99% of patients gain near perfect continence after robot radical prostatectomy. Some patients due …
