Prostate cancer, when caught early, is highly treatable and studies show the most effective treatment is surgery. To help educate patients about the most innovative surgical option available, Methodist North Hospital will present a live surgical webcast featuring a robotic prostatectomy surgery, a minimally invasive treatment for prostate cancer, Tuesday, May 13, at 2 p.m. Viewers can watch Ravi D. Chauhan, M.D., and Robert A. Donato, M.D., perform a prostatectomy and learn more about the procedure from Richard M. Pearson, M.D.
“Robotic surgery has really revolutionized prostatectomy,” said Richard Pearson, M.D., a urologist and surgeon with The Conrad/Pearson Clinic. “The principles of robotic surgery are based on surgeons’ experiences with open surgery so the robot-assisted movements are very natural and it is absolutely fantastic to have an extremely clear, three-dimensional image that allows you to really see the distances between anatomical structures.”
