Kidney cancer develops most often in people over 40, but no one knows the exact causes of this disease. Research has shown that people with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop kidney cancer.
Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States. Although progress has meant that survival rates are improving, instances of the disease have actually increased over past decades.
This year in the United States, almost 180,000 men will be told that they have prostate cancer. After such a diagnosis, a man and his family face several choices regarding treatment; making decisions involving many personal as well as medical factors.
The da Vinci® System provides breakthrough capabilities that allow surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision through tiny incisions.
A combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy administered after transurethral surgery can sometimes completely destroy cancers that would otherwise require cystectomy. If the tumor is in a position that makes surgery difficult, radiation may be used to shrink the tumor, making surgery easier. Radiation might also be used to ease the symptoms of advanced cancer.
