High surgeon volume and positive surgical margins can predict the risk of biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.
Antonio Benito PorcaroAlessandro TafuriMarco SebbenNelia AmigoniTania ProcessaliMarco PirozziRiccardo RizzettoAliasger ShakirPaolo CorsiLeone TisoClara CerratoFilippo MiglioriniGiovanni NovellaMatteo BrunelliRiccardo BernasconiVincenzo De MarcoSalvatore SiracusanoWalter ArtibaniPublished in: Therapeutic advances in urology (2019)
In our cohort, features related to host, tumor, and surgeon volume are associated with the risk of PSM, which is also an independent parameter predicting BR after RARP. The surgical volume of the operating surgeon is an independent factor that decreases the risk of PSM, and, as such, the risk of BR.