advanced robotic surgery vs radiation FOR PROSTATE CANCER

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Advanced robotic surgery offers the highest cure rates for prostate cancer. Period.

Removing the prostate and lymph nodes allows for accurate staging. 20% of patients have prostate cancer that is more aggressive than initial biopsy.

Advanced Surgery allows for the most precise, laser focused removal of prostate cancer and lymph nodes, with the least damage to normal tissues.

Our advanced techniques minimize short term side effects. Most patients heal in 2 months and return to normal activities. There are no long term surprises like radiation.

Our expert team can not only perform surgery, but we also treat cancer with advanced medicines that precisely target prostate cancer. They include Provenge, Xtandi, Zytiga, Erleada, Nubequa and Keytruda.

 Radiation is a bomb going off in your body with risks of a radiation induced bladder cancer, rectal cancer, sarcoma and leukemia. All three cancers are directly related to radiation exposure.

Radiation relies on your immune system to remove cancer cells. Leaving prostate cancer behind in your body is risky. The average prostate has 7 different sites of cancer. Even normal prostate tissue can become cancerous in later years. Complete removal of the prostate avoids this risk.

Surgery is required- hopefully the prostate cancer has not already spread. Because the tissues are so damaged from radiation, there are risks. Advanced Robotic Surgery is the gold standard treatment and better done as a first option.

Surgery is superior to external beam radiation and brachytherapy in a large study of 2,228 men. These men who had surgery lived longer and were prostate cancer free longer than those with radiation. https://www.auajournals.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.juro.2018.07.049