Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer type in men after skin cancer. It holds the 2nd place among cancer-related mortalities. PSA (prostate specific antigen) test enables early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Since the beginning of the application of PSA test, prostate cancer mortality rates has shown a drop. Intensive investigations on diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer are still carried out.

Kidney Cancer

Kidneys are located in the posterior part of the abdominal cavity on each side of the spine and they filter the blood.

da Vinci

Standard laparoscopic images are obtained by a single camera that provides 2D views. This is a method similar to the view provided by your TV which has no sense of depth.

Prof. Dr. Ali Rıza Kural

Ali Rıza Kural, M.D. was born in the Bafra district of Samsun Province in 1951. After completing his primary, secondary, and high school education in Samsun, earned the right to enroll in Medical School of Istanbul University in 1968. He graduated from the medical school and started the specialization training in Urology Department of Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty in Istanbul University in 1974. Following the completion of his dissertation titled as “The place of lympangiography in Urology”, he began his military service in Erzincan Military Hospital. Then he worked nearly 1 year in “Western General Hospital” in Edinburgh (Scotland) and earned the degree of Associate Professor in the same year. During the course of his training in Scotland, he followed training seminars on endoscopic prostate surgery, endoscopic urinary tract stone surgery (percutaneous nephrolithotomy, ureteroscopy) delivered by “Institute of Urology” in London. By 1986, he began to perform the first closed kidney stone surgeries in Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty of Istanbul University. In the same period, he started to employ a method of closed surgery called as “TURP” on benign prostatic hyperlasia cases.

Since then, he performed more than 4000 TURP operations along with similar number of nephrolithotomy and ureteroscopy procedures successfully.

Benign Prostatic Hyperlasia (BPH)

Prostate gland is situated below the bladder in males and surrounds the urethra. The weight of the prostate gland is about 25-30g in adult males. The main function of prostate is to produce the liquid part of the semen and helps ejaculation of this fluid during the sexual intercourse.

Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer type in men after skin cancer.

Kidney Cancer

Kidneys are located in the posterior part of the abdominal cavity on each side of the spine and they filter the blood.

Kidney Stone

Urinary tract stone disease is the most common problem of excretion system after urinary tract inflammations and prostate diseases.

da Vinci Robotic Surgical System

Standard laparoscopic images are obtained by a single camera that provides 2D views. This is a method similar to the view provided by your TV which has no sense of depth.

da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy

There are a lot of alternative treatment options for prostate cancer such as hormonal therapy, radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy.

Greenlight Laser

Prostate is a gland which is localized below the bladder and surrounds the urethra.