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2. Prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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   A simple prostatectomy (also known as a subtotal prostatectomy) involves the removal of only part of the prostate. Surgeons typically carry out simple prostatectomies only for benign conditions. [1] A radical prostatectomy, the removal of the entire prostate gland, the seminal vesicles and the vas deferens, is performed for cancer. [2]

3. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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   Contrasted with the original open form of the surgery, it does not make a large incision but instead uses fiber optics and miniaturization. [citation needed] The laparoscopic and open forms of radical prostatectomy physically remove the entire prostate and reconstruct the urethra directly to the bladder. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and ...

4. Radical retropubic prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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   Radical retropubic prostatectomy was developed in 1945 by Terence Millin at the All Saints Hospital in London. The procedure was brought to the United States by one of Millin's students, Samuel Kenneth Bacon, M.D., adjunct professor of surgery, University of Southern California, and was refined in 1982 by Patrick C. Walsh [1] at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins ...

5. What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer Treatments - AOL

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   Tissues and lymph nodes surrounding the prostate may also be removed. Sometimes, surgery is all a patient needs to become cancer-free. But hormone therapy or radiation might be needed after ...

6. When is an operation like Lloyd Austin's prostatectomy ...

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   Is surgery for prostate cancer considered an elective procedure? The Defense Department has described Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s surger y to treat his prostate cancer on Dec. 22 as an ...

7. Prostate enlargement, how it affects men as they age, and its ...

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   In fact, only about 25% of patients with elevated PSAs are found to have prostate cancer on biopsy when 4 mg/dl is used as the cut-off for normal. In addition, some men with prostate cancer have ...