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
Researchers followed more than 1,600 men with localized prostate cancer who, from 1999 to 2009, received what they called active monitoring, a prostatectomy or radiation with hormone therapy.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
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
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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