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Risk Factors for PPI
Radiotherapy
• Patient who received previous radiation therapy to the prostate or pelvis have worse rates of
incontinence
• At 5-year follow-up the continence rate was only 39%, which is much lower than patients who
received no prior radiotherapy [Stephenson et al., 2004].
Surgeon Experience
• Higher volume surgeons had lower rates of incontinence
Nerve Sparing
• Positively associated with improved continence rates
• Incontinence rates in the bilateral, unilateral, non-sparing groups were 1.3%, 3.4%, and 13.7%
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