The Effect of Evolving Strategies in the Surgical Management of Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer: Comparison of Data from 2005 to 2014 in a Multicenter Setting

Autor: Stefan Hinz, Jonas Busch, Tom Fischer, Ahmed Magheli, Margit Pohle, Hannes Cash, Carsten Kempkensteffen, Kurt Miller
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Advances in Therapy
ISSN: 1865-8652
0741-238X
Popis: Introduction The objective of this study was to evaluate changes of patient characteristics and surgical techniques in radical prostatectomy in Germany within the last decade. Methods Data from 44 German prostate cancer centers were included in the study. Patients’ characteristics (age, initial PSA value), surgical techniques (open vs. minimally invasive approaches), perioperative parameters (operating time, rate of nerve-sparing (NS) radical prostatectomies (RPs), hospitalization time, catheter indwelling time, surgical margin status, number of dissected lymph nodes (LN)), and pathological findings (tumor stage, Gleason score) were analyzed. Results Data from 11,675 patients who underwent RP between 2005 and 2014 were analyzed. The rate of open RP approaches decreased by 1.7% (p = 0.0164), the rate of minimally invasive approaches increased by 1.8% (p = 0.0164). Robot-assisted RPs (RARP) increased by 4.6% (p
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