'A Robot Saved My Life': Is It a Myth?

摘要

Outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) have been reported in several papers, although it has been only about a decade since the method was introduced. No long-term follow-up data for RARP are available for comparison with open radical prostatectomy (ORP).Sweden is a country with a high incidence and an extremely high mortality rate for prostate cancer (PCa) [1]. One of the first European centers at which RARP was introduced is at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. In the current issue of European Urology, Sooriakumaran and collaborators at this center present medium-term oncologic outcomes of RARP with a biochemical recurrence-free survival (BRFS) of 84.8% at a median follow-up of 6.3 yr, and they concluded that there were "satisfactory" outcomes for this procedure [2].