Choices for surgery.
Surgical treatment of prostate cancer has seen many improvements in the past two decades, including laparoscopy, robotic surgery, and better assessment of quality of life and functional results. The limits of surgery for locally advanced disease and after failure of radiotherapy have been better defined, together with the roles of neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment. Patients with clinically organ-confined prostate cancer, reasonable life expectancy, and little or no co-morbidity are the best candidates for radical prostatectomy. This chapter reviews the different technical options for the treatment of prostate cancer, with their respective indications and functional and oncological results.
Larré
Stéphane
S
Department of Urology, University Hospital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
Salomon
Laurent
L
Abbou
Claude Clément
CC
D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012371:Robotics; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted