With the U.S. authorization for urologic procedures, “there is now choice” for hospitals that want to expand their robotic ...

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, ...

FDA clears Medtronic robot for urologic surgeries, enabling use in prostatectomy, nephrectomy and cystectomy across select U.S. hospitals.

Robotic surgery is a promising option in the field of prostate cancer, leading to better outcomes and shorter hospital stays. Robotic surgery can have a multitude of benefits for patients who are ...

The treatment is suitable for men whose cancer has not spread outside of the prostate gland or has spread to the area just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...