Royal Marsden Hospital, London

Some risk factors and other medical problems can affect the outcome of Radical Prostatectomy both in terms of complications, length of stay and likelihood of requiring a transfusion.

The graphs below show what percentage of this consultant's / hospital's patients have each risk factor. This can indicate whether the consultant / hospital generally operates on high risk patients or specialises in doing more complicated surgery.

For example higher levels of PSA suggest a larger tumour burden in the prostate . A high percentage of patients with Gleason 3+3  (low grade cancer) indicates that a surgeon operates mainly on low-grade (less aggressive) cancers. T-staging indicates how advanced the cancer is T2c being early cancer confined to the prostate and T3 locally advanced cancer which has spread outside the prostate but not the pelvis.