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{weblog_name} - Treating Prostate Cancer - Radical Prostatectomy
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Today’s discussion regarding prostate cancer will address surgical removal of the prostate. Other treatment options will be addressed at a later date. Radical prostatectomy implies removal of the prostate and seminal vesicles with reattachment of the bladder to the urethra. It can be performed in multiple fashions including open retropubic (abdominal incision), perineal (subscrotal incision), laparoscopic and robotic fashion. The procedure in one form or another has been present in urology for decades. It would be unfitting to speak of radical prostatectomy without mentioning Dr. Patrick Walsh of Johns Hopkins Medical Center who was one of the pioneers in the advancement of the procedure. He, along with some other notable urologists, turned the procedure from what was a bloody surgery with a very high complication rate into a technically sound procedure with good to excellent results in terms of… read more