title: Robot-assisted prostatectomy: the new standard of care.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has first been performed in 2000 and has since then become a widespread and often performed therapy option for surgical treatment of prostate cancer. The purpose of this review was to highlight the current clinical concepts for radical prostatectomy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Actual literature search was performed in PubMed database and reviewed. Different surgical techniques for RARP are presented. Oncologic and functional outcomes of RARP are discussed and compared to radical retropubic prostatectomy. In conclusion, RARP has equal oncologic and functional outcome in localized prostate cancer. RARP as a less invasive treatment option for patients with localized prostate cancer should be considered as a new standard of care by now.
authors.affiliation: Gencay.Hatiboglu@med.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: Gencay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hatiboglu
authors.forename: Dogu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Teber
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hohenfellner
mesh_terms: D016063:Blood Loss, Surgical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D012371:Robotics; D059039:Standard of Care; D016896:Treatment Outcome