Practice makes perfect: specialisation cuts prostate op complications

The decision to concentrate prostate surgery in a few specialised regional hospitals has cut the number of complications by two-thirds, the AD said on Thursday. Far fewer men are suffering from impotence, problems with urination and infections, the paper said, quoting research by MediQuest. Every year 11,000 men in the Netherlands are diagnosed with prostate cancer and around one in four undergo an operation to remove the prostate. In 2011, 196 complications were reported but this has now been reduced...