For patients facing advanced prostate cancer, the idea of surgery is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s a highly nuanced ...

In June this year, Paul Henderson received test results showing elevated PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels. In this ...

Surgery can cure prostate cancer if the disease hasn’t spread outside of the prostate gland. The most common procedure is a radical prostatectomy. It can be done as traditional open surgery or in a ...

The prostate gland is located just below the bladder in men and surrounds the top portion of the tube that drains urine from the bladder (urethra). (CREDIT: Getty Images)© The Brighter Side of News ...

Traditional surgery for prostate cancer, also known as open surgery, involves a larger incision in the abdomen or perineum to access the prostate gland.

A long-running study suggests that surgical removal of the prostate gland in young men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer may be better than waiting to see if it gets worse. Still, a study of ...

The study tracked 731 men with early-stage prostate cancer found through PSA testing, average age of 67, who agreed to be randomized to either receive radical prostatectomy or just observation ...

Prostate cancer surgery offers negligible benefits to many men with early-stage disease, a major 20-year study demonstrates. In such men, who account for most cases of newly diagnosed prostate ...

Prostate cancer: How robotic surgery is improving outcomes, quality of life after treatment MedStar Washington Hospital Center September 23, 2022, 12:34 PM ...

Surgery — called a radical prostatectomy — is a common approach to manage and cure prostate cancer in its early stage, when it has not spread beyond the prostate gland.

Using a national cancer database, Swedish researchers found that among 2,566 men with cancer confined to the prostate gland, there was no evidence that men who delayed surgery were in worse shape ...