What Is Prostate Surgery. The main type of surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. Surgery for prostate cancer.
In this surgery doctors remove the entire prostate. For many men that may mean a prostatectomy. Surgery is a common choice to try to cure prostate cancer if it is not thought to have spread outside the prostate gland.
Transurethral resection of the prostate turp.
The main type of surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. It surrounds the urethra which carries urine from the bladder to the penis. Surgery is a common choice to try to cure prostate cancer if it is not thought to have spread outside the prostate gland. Even though robotic prostatectomy using the da vinci robot has less severe effects on the body and the patient can leave the hospital the same day men should expect some changes in order to know how to deal with them.
