Author: Dr. Savatta

  • Prostate cancer screening event at Overlook Medical Center on October 3, 2013.

    I am participating in a prostate cancer screening event for men over 50 years old that would like to be screened for prostate cancer. Men will have a PSA blood draw and a digital rectal examination. The target audience is for men not under the care of a physician currently. The event will be held…

  • Robotic surgery on 30 Medical Minutes

    Dr. Savatta has been performing urologic surgery since 1997. He started performing robotic surgery for prostate cancer in 2004 and then progressed from laparoscopic and open surgery to robotic surgery for most of his urologic surgery. He was honored to be a guest on 30 Medical Minutes to describe and demonstrate robotic surgery.

  • Dr. Krieger and Dr. Savatta discuss prostate cancer and PSA screening

    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 with PSA without recommending a replacement for PSA. We had a thorough discussion about the need to screen for prostate cancer and what men…

  • Robotic Nephrectomy –conducted by Dr. Domenico Savatta – YouTube

    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 meeting.

  • Pivotal data on radium in PCa published in NEJM | Urology Times

    “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 demonstrated overall survival in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases, and no known visceral metastatic disease,” explained North American principal investigator Oliver Sartor,…

  • Swedes Stop Inappropriate Prostate Cancer Imaging

    "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 inappropriate imaging," lead author Danil V. Makarov, MD, from the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, told Medscape Medical News. However, the campaign also decreased…

  • Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Hikes Risk of Second Cancers – Renal and Urology News

    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 with radiation, a difference that translated into a 25% increased relative risk of second cancers in radiotherapy recipients. Compared with men not treated with radiation, those…

  • Shared decision-making uncommon for PSA tests | Reuters

    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 about the advantages of screening. About 44 percent of study participants hadn’t been screened for prostate cancer in the past…

  • Intuitive Surgical releases facts about robotic surgery

    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 over 1.5 million robotic surgeries performed in the last 10 years and the low complication rate. I attached the pdf.