Comparative effectiveness of radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy in prostate cancer: observational study of mortality outcomes.

Objective: To compare the survival outcomes of patients treated with surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Sweden, 1996-2010.

The impact of length and location of positive margins in predicting biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with a minimum follow-up of 5 years.

Objective: To evaluate the role of positive surgical margin (PSM) size/focality and location in relation to risk of biochemical recurrence (BCR) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP).

Patients And Methods: Clinicopathological data were collected from 904 patients who underwent RARP at a single European institution from 2002 to 2006. PSM status after RARP was defined as cancer cells at the inked margin, and was stratified by size/focality and location.

Biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in a European single-centre cohort with a minimum follow-up time of 5 years.

Background: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is an increasingly commonly used surgical treatment option for prostate cancer (PCa); however, its longer-term oncologic results remain uncertain.

Objective: To report biochemical recurrence-free survival (BRFS) outcomes for men who underwent RARP ≥5 yr ago at a single European centre.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A total of 944 patients underwent RARP as monotherapy for PCa from January 2002 to December 2006 at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.