A cohort analysis of patients receiving neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy prior to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate localised prostate cancer treated with or without neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy prior to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, and the impact of Covid-19 treatment disruption, on clinico-pathologic outcomes.

Patients And Methods: Data was retrospectively collected from 124 consecutive patients treated with robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy between November 2019-September 2020. Sixty-two patients were treated before 13 March 2020 (historic cohort) and 62 afterwards (covid cohort).