prostatectomy
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prostatectomies
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Montell Jordan, the son of South L.A. who shot to fame in 1995 with the hit “This Is How We Do It,” says his prostate cancer has returned despite having a radical prostatectomy last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Current treatment methods for prostate cancer include androgen ablation, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy, but are ineffective against advanced prostate cancers.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
The Pentagon said earlier this month that Austin had a prostatectomy to treat prostate cancer on Dec. 22, for which he underwent general anesthesia at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Taking advice from specialist doctors, Owen said he had opted for a radical prostatectomy, which involves removing the whole prostate gland.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
After six years, 17 percent of the prostatectomy group still needed pads; among those under active surveillance, it was 8 percent, and 4 percent in the radiation group.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
William Catalona, professor of urology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says the open technique remains the gold standard, and that is how he performs prostatectomies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2018
When we looked at data on 2,300 radical prostatectomies, we found a statistically significant 31% reduction in the number of patients with positive surgical margins after robotic prostatectomy.
From Nature ● Dec. 14, 2015
Men whose surgeons did more than 48 prostatectomies a year were half as likely to need incontinence surgery than men whose surgeons did a lower volume of prostate removals.
From Reuters ● Jun. 29, 2012
Dr. Gregory Zagaja, a surgeon who helped develop the robot-assisted surgery program at University of Chicago Medicine, said robot-assisted prostatectomies are as good as open.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2012
But all of this raises one last stark question: Was my life worth the 47 other prostatectomies that probably didn’t have to be performed?
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2010
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