Carlo A Bravi, Paolo Dell'Oglio, Pietro Piazza, Simone Scarcella, Lorenzo Bianchi, Ugo Falagario, Filippo Turri, Iulia Andras, Fabrizio Di Maida, Ruben De Groote, Federico Piramide, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Nazareno Suardi, Carlo Terrone, Giuseppe Carrieri, Vipul Patel, Riccardo Autorino, Francesco Porpiglia, Andrew Vickers, Alberto Briganti, Francesco Montorsi, Alexandre Mottrie, Alessandro Larcher
BACKGROUND: The learning curve for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) remains controversial, with prior studies showing that, in contrast with evidence on open and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, biochemical recurrence rates of experienced versus inexperienced surgeons did not differ. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the learning curve for positive surgical margins (PSMs) after RARP. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We analyzed the data of 13 090 patients with prostate cancer undergoing RARP by one of 74 surgeons from ten institutions in Europe and North America between 2003 and 2022...
November 29, 2023: European Urology Oncology