Long-term study finds robot-assisted prostate surgery is safe.

As technology continues to march forward, the world of medicine has rapidly adopted the newest advances.. Today, robotic surgery is becoming increasingly common. Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) was the first major robotic surgery performed, but only recently has the safety of the procedure been documented on a long-term scale. A recently completed five-year study concludes that the procedure is safe, with a 9.8% rate of complications, most of which take place within 30 days of the surgery.