Prostate Cancer
At Hackensack Meridian Health, you receive advanced care from our nationally and internationally known prostate cancer experts. We understand your precise type of prostate cancer, right down to its genetic profile. Hackensack University Medical Center has been ranked the #1 Urology Department in New Jersey for nine years in a row by U.S. News & World Report and is the only urology department in New Jersey that is nationally ranked.Our team of specialists is armed with the latest diagnostics and imaging technology. We then pool our expertise to recommend the most effective treatments with the fewest possible side effects. If surgery is needed, you have access to New Jersey’s largest and most successful robotic prostate cancer surgery program. Hackensack University Medical Center was among the first hospitals in the world to use the da Vinci SP® single-port robotic surgery system for urologic surgeries. We now perform over 775 robotic procedures a year, and more than 5,000 in the past decade, with over 30% of prostate cancer surgeries using single-port technology.
Over the last 5 years our surgeons have performed over 1600 robotic prostatectomies, with an average length of stay of 1 night, just a 5% readmission rate and zero mortalities.