Improvements in quality of life and postoperative recoveryfrom robotic surgery in prostate cancer

Abstract

Robotic surgery to treat prostate cancer is one of the advanced techniques and is considered a practice that in the last
five years has become one of the options chosen by patients who develop this disease, being prostate cancer one of the
causes of death in men around the world and whose growth is of concern to the global medical community, hence the
interest in identifying what are the improvements in the quality of life and postoperative recovery of patients who decide to undergo this procedure. For this purpose, a systematic review was carried out which implied the establishment of
inclusion criteria and at the time of the search in databases such as PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus and Springer at the
scientific level, the formula “Prostate cancer” AND “Improving quality of life” AND “robotic surgery” AND “post-operative recovery” was used, resulting in two hundred and eight (208) articles, After the application of the criteria of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and meta-Analyses (PRISMA), fourteen (14) documents were selected from which the analysis was developed, finding as main results, that the Robotic Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) generates in patients an improvement in the recovery rate as an average of up to 67% of urinary continence in a recovery period
between 3 to 12 months, followed by 52% of the erectile function within 6 to 24 months, which even indicates that the patient recovers these functionalities in an average interval, however, there is a third of patients according to one of the studies (United Kingdom) who feel highly disappointed because they expected an easier recovery and postoperative; despite these opinions, it is versa that RARP is a medical practice that contributes to the improvement of the patients, there is still much to study to validate the adjustments that are required in this type of procedures.