New Insights into Robotic Surgery for Urologic Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 77
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urologic cancer; kidney tumors; renal masses; invasive surgery
Interests: urologic oncology; robotic surgery; prostate cancer; urothelial carcinoma; outcomes research; multimodal therapy; precision oncology; under-served populations; clinical trials; resident robotic simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urology has been an early adopter of robotic surgery since the advent of the technology in the early 2000s. The loss of haptic feedback with the robotic platform has been offset by improvements in 3D magnified visualization and a reduction in intraoperative blood loss, postoperative pain, and hospital length of stay. For many urologic oncological operations, there have even been reports of improved oncological outcomes, such as positive surgical margin rates, and functional outcomes, such as stress urinary incontinence after robotic radical prostatectomy. Since modern Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols rely on minimally invasive surgery as the cornerstone of improved postoperative patient outcomes, robotic technology certainly dovetails with this evolution of practice. Expert surgeons have been able to "push the envelope" further and expand the complexity of patients able to safely undergo robotic procedures, such as partial nephrectomy and radical nephrectomy with IVC thrombectomy. Unlike many technological innovations in surgery that are ultimately exposed as "fads" without durable patient benefit to justify the increased costs, it is clear that robotics provides the backbone of the surgical armamentarium in contemporary urologic oncology.
This Special Issue invites researchers to submit manuscripts on robotic surgery in urologic cancers. Suggested topics include innovative techniques, new technologies adaptable to the robotic platform, new robotic platforms, the application of robotic surgery to traditionally open procedures (i.e., "pushing the envelope"), the description or atlas of novel surgical techniques, advancements in multi-modal/multidisciplinary care, artificial intelligence (AI) to improve surgeon training and techniques, advancements in efficient resident training/coaching, and the economics of robotic surgery implementation and maintenance, especially in the context of increased non-urologic robotic usage by other surgical specialties.
Dr. Neil Mendhiratta
Dr. Michael Whalen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urologic oncology
- genitourinary cancers
- robotics
- robotic surgery techniques
- robotics simulation training
- resident education
- artificial intelligence for surgical training
- surgical coaching
- economics of robotic surgery
- surgery financial toxicity
