Early Experience with Salvage Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy in Proton Beam Radiotherapy Failures.

Journal: Balkan medical journal
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Abstract

AIMS: To assess the perioperative and short-term functional and oncologic outcomes of the salvage robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (sRARP), after recurrence following primary proton beam therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer.

Authors

  • Yaşar Bozkurt
    Department of Urology, İstinye University, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • Murat Atar
    Department of Urology, Bower Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
  • Lonuis L Pisters
    Department of Urology, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.