Arpita Singh

If you’ve recently had robotic prostate surgery, receiving your pathology report can feel like an important milestone, but the medical terms can be difficult to make sense of. You may see phrases such as Grade Group, Gleason score, surgical margins or extraprostatic extension and wonder what they mean for you. Your report gives your specialist … Read more

If you’ve had robotic prostate surgery, you may wonder why your prostate is sent to a laboratory afterwards when your cancer was already diagnosed before the operation. The reason is that examining the removed prostate can reveal much more detail than your biopsy was able to show. A specialist pathologist can assess your final cancer … Read more

If you’re preparing for robotic prostate surgery, you may be wondering what actually happens once your prostate is removed, including what fills the space afterwards and how you are still able to pass urine. These are common and understandable questions when you’re trying to picture how your body will work after surgery. During a robotic … Read more

If you’ve had robotic prostate surgery and your latest blood test shows a detectable PSA, it’s understandable to wonder whether this means your cancer has returned. In most cases, however, one detectable result is not enough to answer that question on its own. Your specialist will look at when your PSA was measured, whether it … Read more

If you’ve been told that both robotic surgery and brachytherapy could be suitable for your prostate cancer, deciding between them can feel difficult. Both treatments aim to control the cancer, but they work in very different ways and the differences in recovery, urinary symptoms, sexual function and follow-up may matter just as much to you … Read more

If you have localised prostate cancer, you may be offered robotic prostate surgery or HIFU. Robotic surgery removes your prostate and usually the seminal vesicles, while HIFU uses focused ultrasound to destroy selected prostate tissue. Surgery treats the whole prostate but can cause urinary leakage and erectile dysfunction, and you will no longer ejaculate semen … Read more

If you have localised prostate cancer, you may need to choose between treating it now or monitoring it closely. Robotic surgery removes your prostate, while active surveillance allows you to delay treatment unless your cancer shows signs of becoming more significant. Neither option is automatically better for you. If you have low-risk cancer, surveillance may … Read more

If you have localised prostate cancer and you are offered robotic surgery or radiotherapy, choosing between them can be difficult. You may want to know how the cancer-control results compare, while also considering how each treatment could affect you. Both treatments can provide excellent cancer control, but they affect you differently. Surgery may cause urinary … Read more

If your prostate cancer has spread, it is completely understandable to wonder whether removing the prostate could still help. Robotic prostatectomy can remove the prostate itself, but it cannot remove cancer cells that have already travelled to your bones, distant lymph nodes or other organs. For most men with metastatic prostate cancer, treatment therefore needs … Read more

If you are having robotic radical prostatectomy, you will usually wake up with a urinary catheter in place. It drains urine from your bladder while the new connection between your bladder and urethra heals after the prostate has been removed. You will normally need the catheter only temporarily, often for around seven to ten days. … Read more