Current Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

The main cornerstone of surgical treatment of prostate cancer is robot assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). In the United States, RARP has emerged as the gold standard for surgical therapy. Ten times magnification, 3-dimensional vision, and wrist-held devices enabling difficult dissections and accurate suture application are the benefits of robotic technology. Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy has several benefits over open techniques. Focal therapy for prostate cancer has staged a comeback due to improvements in imaging modality and improved safety profiles of newer focal therapy devices. Long-term efficacy of focal therapy is still unknown. Recent technological advances improve overall performance of surgical therapy.