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Surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have devised an effective means of reconstructing key anatomical structures that ensure continence, reports the journal Urology.

"Modifying existing tissues, our technique added only a few minutes to standard robotic prostatectomy -- to remove the prostate, yet attained a 95 percent continence rate among patients 16 weeks after their surgeries", lead researcher Dr. Ashutosh K. Tewari said in a statement.

A significant number of patients have post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence, and too often, the threat of incontinence can be a key factor in a patient's decision for or against prostate cancer surgery, according to senior researcher Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan.

"Our technique uses tissues that would normally remain behind after prostatectomy -- tissues that we can flip around and support to our advantage", Tewari said. "We reconstruct the anterior and posterior parts of the sphincter and surgically join the bladder and the anastomosis -- the gap in tissues left by prostatectomy -- with the surrounding structures."

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