New Type of Partial Prostatectomy

fixing the link to make it clickable

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/west-bloomfield-man-1st-in-world-to-receive-prostate-cancer-procedure-at-henry-ford?utm_campaign=trueanthem_manual&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=iwar0xc1euppkxcmxo62havdxoikbs4tlfnhbxcbj7qn-mlgfc9sn7vwhqbbw

Interesting article but not much substance. Sure have a lot of questions that I hope will be answered in follow up papers.

Thanks Djin, did not clear up everything but helped. Hopefully a longer summary version comes out from someone so there is a free resource to review.

I have trouble understanding where the confidence is coming from as to the position of the lesion(s) and if it is singular or not. I assume they are doing a MRI to define the prostate condition but those can be quite misleading as we know as well as the biopsy results. The description below seems to allow more that I would be comfortable with.

"Men with (1) prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ≤20 ng/ml, (2) clinical T stage ≤cT2, (3) a dominant unilateral lesion with Gleason ≤ 4 + 3 disease with any number or percentage of cores involved ipsilaterally on prostate biopsy, (4) no primary Gleason ≥4 lesion contralaterally, and (5) a preoperative Sexual Health Inventory of Men (SHIM) score of ≥17 (out of 25) with/without phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor use who consented to undergo precision prostatectomy were included in this single-arm, single-center, IDEAL stage 2b prospective development study.

Going through the bladder rather than the abdomen is all well and good, but how do you get the robot into the bladder? Is this like "Fantastic Voyage" - Life imitating art?

It's going to take years to have even early results.

Djin