Abstract
Introduction: Prostate cancer is the most common malignant disease in men. The number of cases of prostate cancer has increased dramatically in recent 20 years.
Radical prostatectomy is a surgical method for the first-line treatment of localised prostate cancer. We performed the first robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy on December 16th, 2005, achieved the boundary of 1000 robotic-assisted radical prostatectomies in 2012, and in 2015, we successfully completed the 1500th robotic-assisted operation on the prostate.
Method: We retrospectively evaluated the oncological and functional results in 1,500 consecutive patients who underwent robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy at our institution between 2005-2015. The robotic system da Vinci Standard was used for the operations until November 2013, and subsequently the robotic system da Vinci Si HD.
Mean age of the patients was 63.7 years (40 to 86); mean BMI was 27.7 (19.4 to 41.4); and mean preoperative PSA was 6.7 ng/ml (0.4 to 112.0).