Robotic Surgery
Robotic surgery offers a highly precise, minimally invasive option for treating localized prostate cancer. Dr Merrilees tailors each procedure to balance cancer control with functional outcomes and guides patients through a smooth recovery.
Robotic Surgery
Robotic Surgery for localized prostate cancer allows the surgeon to use 3DHD vision with magnification, tremor filtering and wristed instruments.
The Robot has no automated functions and is controlled by inputs from the surgeon making it a master-slave unit. Typically robotic radical prostatectomy surgery takes 3 hours in total (with Anaesthesia) and you are in hospital for 1-2 nights afterwards. You will be discharged home with a catheter for 7
10 days and most often return to David's rooms for this to be removed. There are significant benefits to robotic surgery that you can discuss with your David but also competing priorities with respect to nerve sparing, continence and cancer control.
There are many different permutations to consider for an individual with respect to desired outcomes. After surgery histology will be available once the lab has analized your prostate and a PSA is conducted 6 weeks post operatively (not before). Hopefully you will have been doing many pelvic floor exercises pre-op and this will help you regain continence more quickly after catheter removal. You may also be interested in taking low dose regular sildenafil in the early post-op period.
The Robot has no automated functions and is controlled by inputs from the surgeon making it a master-slave unit. Typically robotic radical prostatectomy surgery takes 3 hours in total (with Anaesthesia) and you are in hospital for 1-2 nights afterwards. You will be discharged home with a catheter for 7
10 days and most often return to David's rooms for this to be removed. There are significant benefits to robotic surgery that you can discuss with your David but also competing priorities with respect to nerve sparing, continence and cancer control.
There are many different permutations to consider for an individual with respect to desired outcomes. After surgery histology will be available once the lab has analized your prostate and a PSA is conducted 6 weeks post operatively (not before). Hopefully you will have been doing many pelvic floor exercises pre-op and this will help you regain continence more quickly after catheter removal. You may also be interested in taking low dose regular sildenafil in the early post-op period.