BACKGROUND Increase in the diagnosis of prostate cancer has increased the incidence of radical prostatectomy. However, the literature assessing pain therapy for this procedure has not been systematically evaluated. Thus, optimal pain therapy for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy remains controversial. METHODS Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were sea...

BACKGROUND A clinical pathway support system on the Internet (CPSSI) has been designed for creating and implementing a web-based clinical pathway for radical prostatectomy. This investigation assessed the effects of the web-based clinical pathway for radical prostatectomy on practice variations. METHODS From June 2002 to Jun 2003, 22 consecutive patients with localized prostate cancer who und...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to assess the efficiency of treatments in patients with localized prostate cancer, by synthesizing available evidence from European economic evaluations through systematic review. METHODS Articles published 2000-2015 were searched in MEDLINE, EMBASE and NHS EED (Prospero protocol CRD42015022063). Two authors independently selected studies for inclusion and extract...

PURPOSE We assessed survival after radical prostatectomy, intensity modulated radiation therapy or conformal radiation therapy vs no local therapy for metastatic prostate cancer adjusting for patient comorbidity, androgen deprivation therapy and other factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified men 66 years old or older with metastatic prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy, inte...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this should penile rehabilitation become the norm following radical prostatectomy point coun...

BACKGROUND There is a scarcity of evidence about the role of patient choice and hospital competition policies on surgical cancer services. Previous evidence has shown that patients are prepared to bypass their nearest cancer centre to receive surgery at more distant centres that better meet their needs. In this national, population-based study we investigated the effect of patient mobility and ...

[This corrects the article on p. 152 in vol. 58.].

I am glad to comment on position papers by Dr. Moul and by Drs. Patel and Sivaraman concerning the current status of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) and open retropubic radical prostatectomy (ORP). It is interesting that two well-informed prostate cancer surgeons have such different perspectives on the relative merits—or lack of merit—of RALP. There is some validity to ...

BACKGROUND Men treated for clinically localized prostate cancer with either radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy usually survive many years with the side effects of these treatments. We present treatment-specific quality-of-life outcomes for prostate cancer patients 5 years after initial diagnosis. METHODS The cohort consisted of men aged 55-74 years who were newly diagnosed wi...