Nerve stimulation during robotic prostate surgery
Part of Cancer, Kidney & urinary clinical trials.
This study tests whether stimulating specific nerves during robotic prostate surgery helps preserve erectile function. If you are scheduled for prostate surgery and have normal erections now, this research may help improve your recovery of erections afterward.
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Who can take part
- You are a man aged 18 or older
- You have prostate cancer that has not spread outside the prostate
- You are scheduled for robot-assisted prostate surgery, and your surgeon plans to try to save the nerves that control erections
- Before treatment, your erections were normal (you could get and keep an erection most of the time)
- You have not had previous prostate surgery or other pelvic surgery that could change the nerve area
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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