Advanced age portends poorer prognosis after radical prostatectomy: a single center experience.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and objective

Although advanced age doesn't seem to impair oncological outcomes after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), elderly patients have increased rates of prostate cancer (PCa) related deaths due to a higher incidence of high-risk disease. The potential unfavorable impact of advanced age on oncological outcomes following RARP remains an unsettled issue. We aimed to evaluate the oncological outcome of PCa patients > 69 years old in a single tertiary center.

Materials and methods

1143 patients with clinically localized PCa underwent RARP from January 2013 to October 2020. Analysis was performed on 901 patients with available follow-up. Patients ≥ 70 years old were considered elderly. Unfavorable pathology included ISUP grade group > 2, seminal ves

SUBMITTER: Porcaro AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9675672 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature