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Robotic surgery on 30 Medical Minutes 4 Aug 2013 | 09:12 am
This is the TV Show I recorded for 30 Medical Minutes in July of 2013. We described how robotic surgery works and procedures that can be performed with robotic surgery.
Dr. Kreiger and Savatta discuss prostate cancer and PSA screening 4 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
In June of 2013 I joined my partner and president of UGNJ, Alan Krieger, MD to educate the public about prostate cancer. Recently a governmental agency recommended against prostate cancer screening w...
Robotic Nephrectomy –conducted by Dr. Domenico Savatta – YouTube 4 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
This was the first live televised kidney surgery. I performed it at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in May of 2007. We telecasted it to Anaheim at the Intuitive Surgical display at the AUA national ...
Pivotal data on radium in PCa published in NEJM | Urology Times 28 Jul 2013 | 06:11 am
“The publication of the ALSYMPCA data in the New England Journal of Medicine is important, as it will provide physicians with comprehensive data on this recently approved treatment that has demonstrat...
Swedes Stop Inappropriate Prostate Cancer Imaging 28 Jul 2013 | 04:58 am
"The joint campaign by local county governments and the National Prostate Cancer Register [NPCR] of Sweden, which is an association of Swedish urologists, was incredibly effective at stamping out inap...
Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Hikes Risk of Second Cancers – Renal and Urology News 21 Jul 2013 | 12:26 am
A total of 570 patients were diagnosed with second cancers. The rate of second cancers was 15.5/1,000 person-years in radiotherapy recipients compared with 11.4/1,000 person-years in those not treated...
Shared decision-making uncommon for PSA tests | Reuters 15 Jul 2013 | 02:02 am
They found 64 percent of those men had not discussed the pluses and minuses of PSA tests with their doctors, or the scientific uncertainty of their effect. Of the rest, about half had talked only abou...
Intuitive Surgical releases facts about robotic surgery 14 Jul 2013 | 02:22 am
Facts_about_daVinci_Surgery I received a correspondence from intuitive surgical that shows the growth in prostatectomies and hysterectomies (benign and malignant). It describes how there have been ov...
Radical Prostatectomy May Prevent LUTS Progression – Renal and Urology News 6 Jul 2013 | 11:32 pm
A prospective study of 1,788 men who underwent RP found that men who had clinically significant LUTS preoperatively experienced a decline in LUTS severity and remained stable over a 10-year interval, ...
Diet changes reduce all-cause mortality risk in prostate cancer patients | Urology Times 6 Jul 2013 | 09:59 pm
The authors found that men who replaced 10% of their total daily calories from carbohydrates with healthy vegetable fats had a 29% lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer and a 26% lower risk ...
