Who is a candidate for robotic assisted prostatectomy?
Anyone diagnosed with localized prostate cancer may benefit from robotic-assisted prostatectomy. However, the decision to have prostate cancer treated surgically revolves around numerous considerations. Variables that enter into preoperative evaluation include age, pre-biopsy PSA, biopsy findings, previous prostate cancer treatments and other illnesses. Robotic prostatectomy can be done for men of all sizes and shapes. The surgery can be done in men who have had other operations: appendectomy, laparoscopic hernia repair, repair of abdominal trauma, transurethral prostatectomy (TURP), and in some men who have been treated with previous pelvic radiation.
