Prostate is a male gland needed for reproductive functions, it produces fluid used for sperm transport for the purpose of ejaculation. Prostate can grow slowly and affect urinary tract causing problems, this affects many men and the risk gets increased with age. Prostate enlargement also causes bladder problems and related complications.
Dr. Mark Emberton delivers a lecture titled “Imaging as a biomarker in screening, active surveillance and early risk stratification in prostate cancer” at the Inaugural International Prostate Cancer Symposium. Dr. Ash Tewari serves as course director for this Continuing Medical Education event. For more information visit: www.nycrobotics.com
Title: Anatomic Retro-apical Technique for the reduction of positive margins during robotic prostate cancer surgery. American Urological Association Best Video for 2010. To describe a novel synchronous approach to apical dissection during robotic assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) which augments circumferential visual appreciation of the prostatic apex and membranous urethra anatomy, and assess its effect on apical margin positivity. www.nycrobotics.com email ash.k.tewari@gmail.com Dr. Ash Tewari is a professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has performed over 3500 robotic prostate cancer surgeries. He is a NIH funded researcher for the development of real time imaging during prostate cancer surgery as well as a member of the NIH early detection research network. He serves as director of the Prostate Cancer Institute and the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. Thecontents, such as graphics, images, text, quoted information and all other materials (“Content”) are provided for reference only, do not claim to be complete or exhaustive or to be applicable to any particular individual’s medical condition. Users should always consult with a qualified and licensed physician or other medical care provider. Users are warned to follow the advice of their physicians without delay regardless of anything read in this forum. The Weill Cornell Prostate Cancer Institute assumes no duty to correct or update the Content nor to resolve or …
Professor Laurence Klotz delivers a lecture titled “Active Surveillance: Should it be considered standard of care for low risk disease” at the Inaugural International Prostate Cancer Symposium. Dr. Ash Tewari serves as course director for this Continuing Medical Education event. For more information visit: www.nycrobotics.com