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| New York Daily News, 11/07/2006 |
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| Sibs Unite Through Ops & Downs |
"This is a unique story. You never hear of two brothers diagnosed the same time who have the same surgery with the same doctor." |
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| Metro New York, 08/31/2006 |
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| MY Day Dr. David Samadi |
New York, Thursday, August 31, 2006 - Nicknamed “the Robodoc,” Dr. David Samadi can perform prostate surgery while sitting 10 feet away from his patients. As September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month, the doctor fills us in on how he performs the surgery with robots. |
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| Health News Spring/Summer 2006 |
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| Robotic Prostatectomy: A New Frontier |
Today, men diagnosed with prostate cancer no longer have to face major surgery involving large incisions and post-operative side effects such as loss of bladder control and sexual function. Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy-revolutionary and advanced prostate cancer treatment-has profoundly changed the options for prostate cancer patients. |
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| The New York Sun, 1/17/2006 |
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| Doctor Discusses Plans To Perform Tele-Surgery |
“Dr. Samadi soon plans to perform tele-surgery on patients abroad… This technology was intended to ultimately enable a doctor to perform long-distance surgeries..But robotic technology has advanced so rapidly that we're now able to perform the surgeries without delay…" |
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| Newsweek, 12/4/2005 |
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| Cutting Edge |
"Five years ago, says Dr. David B. Samadi, director of robotic laparoscopic urology surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia Medical Center, 80 to 90 percent of the prostatectomies he did were open, with less than 10 percent done robotically. Now the figures have reversed..." |
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| The Harrison Report, 12/9/2005 |
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| Cause for Celebration |
Samadi, who is one of the few urologic surgeons in the U.S. trained in both oncology and laparoscopy, performed the first robotic laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in 2001 at Columbia Presbyterian and is one of the leaders in this advanced field |
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| PR Newswire, 12/14/2005 |
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| Is There a Sex After Prostate Surgery? |
…most men are able to maintain sexual capabilities and bladder control after a robotic prostatectomy. This is different from an open prostatectomy, where men commonly lose continence and ability to have fulfilling sex. |
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| NY1 News, 11/07/2005 |
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| Forbes, 7/27/05 |
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| News 10 Now, 12/02/2005 |
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| The Rye Sound Shore Review, 11/8/ 2004 |
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| Robots Help Perform Prostate Cancer Surgery
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"Now a new, minimally invasive surgical procedure uses finely controlled robotic instruments to perform the surgery more safely while enhancing patient recovery and outcome. While sitting at a computer console, the surgeon controls a robotic system that includes a high-resolution camera and micro-surgical instruments..." |
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| Westchester Magazine, April 2003 |
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| A Better Treatment for Prostate Cancer |
"Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is an exciting development because it appears to perform as well as traditional open surgery, while being less invasive. In the United States, open surgery, formally called open radical retropubic prostatectomy, is the most common operation for prostate cancer and it is performed through a single abdominal incision of five- to 10-inches..." , open surgery, formally called open radical retropubic prostatectomy, is the most common operation for prostate cancer and it is performed through a single abdominal incision of five- to 10-inches..." |
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