Tag: experience

  • Surgeon and hospital volume linked to radical prostatectomy outcomes

    Source: MedWire News “Briefly, higher hospital and surgeon volumes are associated with a decreased risk of most in-hospital complications after RP,” the team concludes. They add: “These associations are statistically significant and likely to be clinically important, especially if doubling hospital or surgical volume can lead to an 8% to 9% decrease in the rate…

  • Surgical experience affects prostate cancer control ‘regardless of risk’

    From MedWire News – Oncology – Prostate cancer control after radical prostatectomy improves with increasing surgeon experience, regardless of patients’ risk, say US scientists who suggest that the primary reason for recurrence in low-risk patients is inadequate surgical technique. The team, led by Eric Klein from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, previously discovered that open…

  • Experience matters for prostate cancer surgery

    Study tracks ‘learning curve’ in prostate surgery – CNN.com In this study, experience was measured not by age or years as a surgeon but by the number of times doctors performed this operation. “Advice for patients is to try to seek out experienced surgeons, and they’re likely to be ones who specialize in the procedure,”…

  • Surgeon influence on prostate cancer outcomes

    UroToday – Prostate Cancer Surgery Outcomes: Surgeon Dependent Factors “Subgroup analysis showed superior recurrence free survival for patients treated by surgeons with greater than 1,000 operations compared to less than 50 operations. After 250 surgeries, the curves plateau.” This was a presentation by one of the worlds best prostate cancer surgeons, Dr. Peter Scardino. Pertinent…