A Multinational, Multi-institutional Study Comparing Positive Surgical Margin Rates Among 22Â 393 Open, Laparoscopic, and Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy Patients

In this study, we compared the effectiveness of different types of surgery for prostate cancer by looking at the rates of cancer cells left at the margins of what was removed in the operations. We compared open, keyhole, and robotic surgery from many centers across the globe and found that robotic and keyhole operations appeared to have lower margin rates than open surgeries. How many cases a center and surgeon do seems to affect this rate for both robotic and keyhole procedures.