An Algorithm to Personalize Nerve Sparing in Men with Unilateral High-Risk Prostate Cancer

Current guidelines do not provide strong recommendations on preservation of the neurovascular bundles during radical prostatectomy in case of high-risk (HR) prostate cancer and/or suspicious extraprostatic extension (EPE). We aimed to evaluate when, in case of unilateral HR disease, contralateral nerve sparing (NS) should be considered or not.Within a multi-institutional data set we selected patients with unilateral HR prostate cancer, defined...