prostatectomies
- plural of prostatectomy.
Example Sentences
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The study also didn’t indicate whether there was a change in the stage of cancers found among the men who had prostatectomies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2016
The number of men being offered or asking for a prostate-specific antigen test has dramatically dropped, so the first reason why fewer radical prostatectomies are being done is because fewer men are being tested.
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
