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The robot is an efficient tool for medical experts for enhanced surgery precision to make life more comfortable and better.
Robot-assisted surgery to remove cancerous prostate glands is effective in controlling the disease for as much as 10 years, says a study. Using several standard measures of cancer-treatment success, researchers found that 98.8 percent of the patients survived cancer for 10 years after their surgery. The results are comparable to the more invasive open surgery to remove the entire diseased prostate and surrounding tissue.
'Until our analysis, there was little available information on the long-term oncologic outcomes for patients who undergo robot-assisted radical prostatectomy, or RARP,' said Mireya Diaz, form Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System in the US. The researchers studied 483 men who had prostate cancer and received robot assisted surgery from 2001 to 2003. The study was published in the journal European Urology. (Read: Robots to travel deeper to check and treat your innards)
What is prostate cancer?
Prostate cancer forms in tissues of the prostate (a gland in the male reproductive system) and is one of the leading causes of cancer in men above the age of 60. Most cases could be slow growing and may even go undetected and not cause any problem. Some could be aggressive and can spread to other parts of the body and are difficult to treat. It usually presents with difficulty and pain during urination, blood in the urine along with sexual dysfunction. Advanced cases may present with bone pain in addition to the urinary symptoms. Prostate cancer is very rare before the age of 40 but the risk increases with age and most cases are detected in the late 60s. Read more on symptoms, cause and diagnosis of prostate cancer...
With inputs from IANS
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