Better Results Offset Costs of Prostate Surgery at Specialty Centers

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.

It’s also possible that the calculations underestimated the potential cost savings because the researchers focused on cancer recurrence but didn’t look at other expensive outlays related to managing complications such as impotence and incontinence that can be more common with less experienced surgeons, Dr. Quoc-Dien Trinh, a urologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who wasn’t involved in the study.

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