The robots used in robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) cost around £1.5 million each making it a much more expensive approach than standard open surgery methods. The technique is ...

Objective: To review the current medical literature on robotic prostatectomy (RP ... and quicker recovery compared with open surgery. Functional and cancer control results are still immature ...

How do we value the significant increased risk in lifelong impotence in open radical prostate surgery versus robotic?” Professor Helen O’Connell, president of the Urological Society of ...