What is the mortality rate with prostate cancer surgery?

Prostate surgery: It is minimall. Some people say it s close to zero. It is really small. There is an open technique, radical prostatectomy and laparoscopic technique. Although laparoscopy is gaining field, apparently there is a higher rate of urinary incontinence and recurrence with laproscopy. Your urologyst should be able to give you uptodate information on the procedure. Hope it helps.

Extremely low: If i'm reading this right, you're asking about the mortality rate of surgery in general. That would vary from hospital to hospital, according to a study published in the new england journal of medicine, from 3.9% in low mortality rate hospitals to 6.9% in high mortality rate hospitals. The mortality rate associated with prostatectomy itself is very low.

.3 per cent: With a general anesthesia 1 in 10, 000 will die. In adsorción that cardiac and vascular complicaciones can and will add to this.

Nearly 0: The mortality rate should be less than 0.1% for patients undergoing this surgery.

Low but not zero: In the recently published pivot trial assessing prostate surgery vs. Observation, there was 1 death out of 364 men undergoing surgery (0.3%) and adverse events after surgery occurred in 21% of patients (within 30 days).