MPH alum urges prostate surgery patients to not only focus on surgeon experience
Men who get prostate cancer surgery at hospitals that do a lot of these procedures may have better results, and those better outcomes might help offset the added cost of care at specialized facilities, a U.S. study suggests. Patients should be careful not to focus on the surgeon's experience level until after they determine whether they actually need surgery, because many men with slow-growing tumors don't necessarily need prostatectomies, said Dr. Daniel Barocas, a researcher in surgical quality and outcomes at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who wasn't involved in the study.