Questions remain on value of robot prostate surgery

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Questions remain on value of robot prostate surgery

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who get robot surgery for prostate cancer have fewer short-term complications than men whose procedure is done the old-fashioned way - but the newer treatment is pricier, according to a new analysis of close to 30,000 patients. Although the findings may help inform decisions about cancer surgery, a gold-standard trial comparing the two methods of prostate removal head-to-head is still lacking, researchers said. "We don't really have that high-level evidence… that can tell us that one is better than the other, or how one is different than the other," said Dr. ...

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