CUCCHIARA V.

Purpose of review To evaluate the rationale supporting the role of local treatment in the management of patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PCa). Recent findings Not all patients with metastatic PCa share the same prognosis, in which selected individuals with oligometastatic PCa might benefit from local therapies. These men would harbor a...

Purpose: To assess the current status and future potential of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and MRI-targeted biopsy (MRI-TBx) on the pretherapeutic risk assessment in prostate cancer patients' candidates for radical prostatectomy. Methods: A literature search of the MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus database was performed. English-language original and...

Purpose The effect of time between radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy on postoperative functional outcomes is still unclear in patients with surgically managed prostate cancer. We hypothesized that a shorter time between radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy might be associated with worse functional recovery rates after radical...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to review the current literature concerning the indication of pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND), its extent and complications in prostate cancer (PCa) staging, the available tools, and the future perspectives to assess the risk of lymph node invasion (LNI).METHODS: A literature review was performed using...

Objective To test the prognostic role of treatment delay in patients affected by prostate cancer (PCa). Materials and methods The study included 2,653 patients treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) at a single institution between 2006 and 2011. The evaluated outcomes were biochemical recurrence (BCR) and clinical recurrence (CR)....

Readmission after major surgery is a common but understudied event. In this context, the attention on readmission after discharge is growing, as this parameter has recently been scrutinized as a driver of health care expenditure. We analyzed the incidence of 30-day readmission after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Patients in...