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Training and Education in Robotic Surgery: Recommendations of ERUS (EAU Robotic Urology Section)
This chapter includes the most recent recommendations of the EAU Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) regarding training and education in robotic urology.
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Metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: local treatment strategies
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The impact of race/ethnicity on upstaging and/or upgrading rates among intermediate risk prostate cancer patients treated with radical prostatectomy
Race/ethnicity may predispose to less favorable prostate cancer characteristics in intermediate risk prostate cancer (IR PCa) patients. We tested this hypothesis in a subgroup of IR PCa patients treated with r...
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Clinical Case Debate: Immunotherapy Versus Alternative Therapies in the Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Setting of Localized, High-Risk Prostate Cancer
Radical prostatectomy (RP) with or without extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) represents the most commonly adopted treatment modality for patients with non-metastatic prostate cancer (PCa). Although...
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Optimizing prostate-targeted biopsy schemes in men with multiple mpMRI visible lesions: should we target all suspicious areas? Results of a two institution series
To assess the diagnostic added value of sampling secondary lesions at prostate mpMRI (SL) in addition to index lesion (IL) in detecting significant prostate cancer (csPCa) when also systematic biopsy (SBx) is ...
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Radical cystectomy plus chemotherapy in patients with pure squamous cell bladder carcinoma: a population-based study
To test the effect of perioperative chemotherapy (CHT) on overall mortality (OM) and cancer-specific mortality (CSM) in patients with locally advanced or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the urinary bladd...
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Preoperative frailty predicts adverse short-term postoperative outcomes in patients treated with radical prostatectomy
To investigate the effect of frailty on short-term postoperative outcomes in patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy (RP).
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Risk calculator for prediction of treatment-related urethroplasty failure in patients with penile urethral strictures
To design a dedicated risk calculator for patients with penile urethra stricture who are scheduled to urethroplasty that might be used to counsel patients according to their pre-operative risk of failure.
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Temporal trends and social barriers for inpatient palliative care delivery in metastatic prostate cancer patients receiving critical care therapies
Use of inpatient palliative care (IPC) in advanced cancer patients represents a well-established guideline recommendation. A recent analysis demonstrated that genitourinary (GU) cancer patients benefited of IP...
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Performance of [68Ga] Ga-PSMA 11 PET for detecting prostate cancer in the lymph nodes before salvage lymph node dissection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Salvage lymph node dissection (sLND) for nodal recurrence in prostate cancer (PCa) patients with biochemical recurrence (BCR) is still not recommended in current guidelines, because of the diagnostic inaccurac...
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Oncologic outcomes after robot-assisted versus open radical cystectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The efficacy of RARC in oncologic outcomes compared ORC is controversial. We assess potential differences in oncologic outcomes between robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) and open radical cystectomy (ORC).
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The effect of androgen deprivation treatment on subsequent risk of bladder cancer diagnosis in male patients treated for prostate cancer
Bladder cancer (BCa) is three-to-four times more common in men than in women. To explain this gender gap, several theories have been proposed, including the impact of androgen hormones. The aim of this study w...
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Impact of multiparametric MRI and MRI-targeted biopsy on pre-therapeutic risk assessment in prostate cancer patients candidate for radical prostatectomy
To assess the current status and future potential of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and MRI-targeted biopsy (MRI-TBx) on the pretherapeutic risk assessment in prostate cancer patients’ candidates for radical pros...
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Erectile Dysfunction and Penile Rehabilitation After Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
Radical prostatectomy is one of the treatments of choice in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer and a life expectancy >10 years according to international guidelines. Although this surgical appr...
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Improved cancer-specific free survival and overall free survival in contemporary metastatic prostate cancer patients: a population-based study
Over the past decade, several systemic agents as docetaxel, cabazitaxel, sipuleucel-T, abiraterone and enzalutamide have improved overall survival (OS) in metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) patients. However, t...
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Training and Education in Robotic Surgery: Recommendations of ERUS (EAU Robotic Urology Section)
The present chapter aims to give an overview of the importance of training in robotic surgery. It includes the past experiences in robotic urological surgery, the introduction of virtual reality simulation and...
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Radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy reduce prostate cancer mortality in elderly patients: a population-based propensity score adjusted analysis
Contemporary data regarding the effect of local treatment (LT) vs. non-local treatment (NLT) on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) in elderly men with localized prostate cancer (PCa) are lacking. Hence, we evalua...
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Robotic Urologic Surgery: How to Make an Effective Robotic Program—A European Perspective
Over the last decade the introduction of novel technologies substantially changed our approach to patients with urologic pathologies. Worldwide the number of robotic procedures performed per year is rapidly in...
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Techniques to Improve Sexual Function Following Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
Penile rehabilitation aims at improving cavernosal oxygenation, preserving endothelial structure, and preventing smooth muscle structural changes. The most commonly adopted approaches for penile rehabilitation...
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Robotic or Laparoscopic Renal Surgery: Pros and Cons
The widespread use of routine abdominal imaging has led to an increased proportion of patients diagnosed with asymptomatic small renal masses. Minimally invasive renal surgery has become one of the main treatm...
