Study design

observatiol clinical cohort study

Study time

2013.4-2019.9

Country

Japan

Object

All patients underwent RARP using a four-arm Da Vinci Si surgical system (Intuitive Surgical Incorporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA).

Inclusion criteria

21 patients who stopped visiting our outpatient clinic within 12 months after RARP and 31 patients who received salvage and/or adjuvant therapies such as hormol or radiotherapy within the first 12 months were excluded.Another 19 patients who started neoadjuvant HT after preoperative evaluation were also ruled out.In addition, a patient in whom RARP was converted to open surgery due to severe adhesion to the rectum was also excluded.

Sample size

470

Topic classification

QoL

Keypoint

Vintage neoadjuvant hormol therapy prior to RARP should not be recommended due to not only oncological outcomes, but also the impacts on postoperative hormol- and sexual-related QOL.

Year