The Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC) has recommended against publicly funding robotic surgery for prostate cancer. OHTAC determined there was not enough evidence that the minimally invasive procedure is better than traditional open surgery to justify the increased price of $6,000 per patient. Read article 1 here. Read article 2 here.
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In this video, shared by Continence Foundation of Australia, listen to Specialist Continence & Women’s Health Physiotherapist, Shan Morrison, as she discusses urinary incontinence in men after prostate cancer surgery. Dr. Morrison also talks about pelvic floor exercises and how these can help men in their recovery. Watch the video here.
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Robot-assisted and open radical surgeries for prostate cancer have similar outcomes for patients at 3 months, according to clinical trial results published in the Lancet. Read the first article here.
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Many men who are told their surgery for prostate cancer has been a success later discover that this is not the case. The level of a protein in their blood, called prostate specific antigen, PSA, begins to rise signalling they still have prostate cells in their body even though they were told the entire prostate had been removed. There has been long standing debate about how best to predict who will fail after surgery. The current debate focuses on the value of pathologists examining the excised prostate and trying to detect, under the microscope, whether tumour cells have invaded the
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September 2016 Awareness Night A Surgeon and His Patient – A Patient and His Surgeon Mark Cullen, Gardening Expert Radio and Television Personality and Best-selling Author Well-known newspaper and magazine columnist Member of the Order of Canada Prostate Cancer Survivor DR. GROLL’S PATIENT Dr. Ryan Groll, MD, MSc, FRCPC Endourologist, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon Michael Garron Hospital (Toronto East Health Network) (formerly Toronto East York General Hospital) Lectuter, Dept. of Surgery, U. of Toronto MARK CULLEN’S SURGEON CLICK ON THE ARROW TO START THE VIDEO The Complete Presentation 52:22 minutes
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This New England Journal of Medicine article gives the results of a randomized trial of 3 possible prostate cancer treatments. It is rather long and academic, but shows similar results for the 3 options. Read the article here.
Studies have shown that radical prostatectomy can improve progression-free and overall survival in patients with lymph node-positive prostate cancer. While this finding requires further validation, it does allow urologists to question the former treatment paradigm of aborting surgery when lymph node invasion from prostate cancer occurred, especially in patients with limited lymph node tumor infiltration. Studies show that intermediate- and high-risk patients should undergo extended pelvic lymph node dissection up to the common iliac arteries in order to improve nodal staging. Read the article.
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The loss of erectile function after surgery Radical Prostatectomy is most frequently caused by intraoperative injury to the neurovascular bundles. It is known that if both bundles are removed, patients seldom recover erectile function. Accordingly, neurovascular bundle preservation during Radical prostatectomy has proven benefits in terms of erectile function recovery. Read the article.
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Technology developed in Oxford to make tumour cells fluorescent could improve surgery outcomes for men with prostate cancer. Fluorescent compounds show up diseased cells during keyhole operations, allowing surgeons to be more precise when removing the prostate and tissue around it. Read the article.
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A survey showed men who underwent radical prostatectomy, especially robotic radical prostatectomy, had unrealistic expectations about how well they would function sexually postoperatively. Read the article.
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