Last updated: 15 September 2026 · Content curated by Dr. Shabnam Choudhary · Medically reviewed by Dr. Saffiyyah Chaudhary
Quick Answer
Radical Prostatectomy in India is typically planned at $7,000–$18,000. A useful estimate names the cancer treated, the exact resection and nodal scope, the operating surgeon, anaesthesia and facility fees, routine histopathology, ward nights and the early review. Whether nerve-sparing is attempted, whether pelvic nodes are taken, and whether the approach is open or robotic change the operation and the bill. Stored stay is 3–7 nights, though discharge and clearance to fly follow individual recovery.
The variables that move the figure most are nerve-sparing versus wider resection, pelvic lymph node dissection, surgical platform, continence and sexual-function rehabilitation. Changed findings, complications or a longer admission produce a different bill.
- India cost range
- $7,000–$18,000
- Typical starting point
- $7,000
- Typical hospital stay
- 3–7 nights
- Procedure time
- commonly 2–4 hours, longer when pelvic nodes are dissected
- Recovery
- Three to seven nights typical
Major cost factors: nerve-sparing versus wider resection, pelvic lymph node dissection, surgical platform, continence and sexual-function rehabilitation. International patients should also budget for accommodation, airport transfers, a medical visa, medicines and follow-up.
Often quoted separately: changed resection scope; complications and escalation; extended pathology; adjuvant treatment; rehabilitation and devices.
Why request a cost through GAF rather than a hospital?
Writing to one campus gets you that campus’s package. A GAF request is reviewed against your records and returned as suitable doctor and hospital options with an indicative, itemised estimate. There is no obligation to book.
- Doctor review first. The number follows a reading of your imaging, test results and clinical records, not a brochure range.
- Hospital options. You can compare listed campuses before you travel, instead of starting over with each international desk.
- International-patient coordination. Visa letters, records routing and companion logistics sit with the same request.
It is generally considered for clinically localised prostate cancer in a man whose life expectancy and other illnesses make curative local treatment appropriate. Active surveillance, radiation and systemic therapy are alternatives that must be compared, not assumed away.
Whether nerve-sparing is attempted, whether pelvic nodes are taken, and whether the approach is open or robotic change the operation and the bill. Two patients with the same diagnosis can therefore be quoted differently without either figure being wrong.
This page explains what the operation involves, what moves the estimate and which records a remote team needs. It cannot choose between surgery, systemic treatment, radiation or observation for an individual.
$7,000–$18,000, $30,000–$70,000 and 3–7 nights are planning tokens, not tariffs. Match any quotation to the planned resection, nodal scope, any reconstruction and the pathology performed.
What Is Radical Prostatectomy?
The prostate sits below the bladder and in front of the rectum, wrapping the urethra. The nerves involved in erections run along its sides, and the sphincter that supports continence sits at its apex, so how those structures are handled is part of the operation.
A nerve-sparing operation aims to keep the neurovascular bundles when the tumour does not reach them, while a wider resection is used when extra-prostatic extension is likely. Pelvic nodes are added only where risk tables or imaging support it.
When Might Radical Prostatectomy Be Considered?
A qualified urologic oncologist must assess suitability, normally with multidisciplinary review. Decisions usually involve the surgeon, a pathologist, a radiologist reading MRI or metabolic imaging, a radiation oncologist where radiation is an alternative or adjuvant, and continence and sexual-function rehabilitation services.
A remote opinion can change after examination and repeat imaging.
How the operation is performed, recovery and variations →
Radical Prostatectomy cost in India
The $7,000–$18,000 value is GAF's stored national planning range for radical prostatectomy, not a fixed package. Replace it with an itemized quotation naming the urologic oncologist, the campus, the planned resection and nodal scope, the expected nights and the pathology plan.
Cost moves with nerve-sparing versus wider resection, pelvic lymph node dissection, surgical platform, continence and sexual-function rehabilitation, stage and local extent, previous cancer treatment, pathology depth, anaesthesia and medical risk, facility and admission scope, unplanned escalation. A limited resection is not comparable with radical surgery or with difficult anatomy after previous treatment.
Do not derive city tariffs from the national band. Keep $30,000–$70,000, flights, visas, transport, lodging, medicines, extra nights and a complication contingency in the same budget.
Costing the operation alone is the commonest budgeting error, because pathology, adjuvant treatment and rehabilitation are separate pathways with separate estimates.
Planning Range ≠ Final Hospital Quotation. Records review and qualified surgical, oncology and anaesthetic assessment come before any itemized offer.
Radical Prostatectomy cost breakdown in India
Component prices are rarely published as a public tariff. The lines below describe what typically sits inside a surgical estimate, not a dollar amount for each row.
- Surgeon and assistant fees
- The named operating team.
- Theatre and anaesthesia
- Operating room time and anaesthesia.
- Consumables and devices
- Staplers, energy devices, drains, implants.
- Ward and critical care
- Room category and high-dependency nights.
- Histopathology
- Margin and nodal reporting.
- Imaging and laboratory
- Inpatient scans, tests, blood products.
- Medicines during admission
- Analgesia, antibiotics, thromboprophylaxis.
Planning range or quotation?
The $7,000–$18,000 figure is an indicative planning range. A final hospital quotation is itemised, issued after a consultant reviews your records, and still subject to what is found clinically.
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What is usually included in a Radical Prostatectomy package?
No two hospitals draw the line in the same place, so read an estimate for what it excludes as carefully as for what it covers. The pattern below is what listed campuses typically bundle into a surgical estimate for this procedure. Anything not written into your estimate should be assumed to be extra until the hospital confirms otherwise.
Usually included
Usually included
Preoperative assessment
Surgeon and anaesthesia review where itemized.
Usually included
The consented operation
Surgeon, theatre, consented scope.
Usually included
Anaesthesia and routine medicines
Anaesthesia and stated monitoring.
Usually included
Hospital recovery as quoted
Stated ward nights and room category.
Usually included
Routine histopathology
Standard specimen and nodal reporting.
Usually included
Discharge documents
Operation note, summary, early review.
Usually included
Named operative plan
Only the stated radical prostatectomy scope and approach are included.
May be charged separately
May be separate
Changed resection scope
Wider excision, extra nodal levels, unlisted reconstruction.
May be separate
Complications and escalation
Transfusion, intensive care, re-operation, longer stay.
May be separate
Extended pathology
Frozen section, immunohistochemistry, molecular panels.
May be separate
Adjuvant treatment
Chemotherapy, targeted therapy, radiotherapy, radioiodine.
May be separate
Rehabilitation and devices
Therapy, prostheses, dental work, medicines.
May be separate
Travel and living
Flights, visas, transport, lodging, companion.
Catalog inclusions listed for this pathway: surgical oncology consultation and records review; named surgeon on camera before travel; theatre, anaesthesia and inpatient stay as quoted; histopathology of the specimen; discharge summary to your home oncologist.
What can increase the cost?
These are the drivers that actually move a bill for this operation, in rough order of how often they do it. Most of them are clinical decisions rather than commercial ones, which is why an honest estimate is written after a records review rather than before it.
- Nerve-sparing versus wider resection
- Preserving one or both nerve bundles changes theatre time and reconstruction.
- Pelvic lymph node dissection
- Adding nodes lengthens surgery and can add a drain and a lymph-leak risk.
- Surgical platform
- Open and robotic access carry different equipment and consumable costs.
- Continence and sexual-function rehabilitation
- Physiotherapy, devices and medicines after discharge are frequently excluded.
- Stage and local extent
- Invasive disease lengthens surgery and widens the resection.
- Previous cancer treatment
- Earlier chemotherapy or radiation alters tissue planes and risk.
- Pathology depth
- Frozen section and molecular testing are separate charges.
- Anaesthesia and medical risk
- Comorbidity changes monitoring and length of stay.
- Facility and admission scope
- Ward and intensive-care nights are different scopes.
- Unplanned escalation
- A complication or return to theatre changes the episode.
Cancer-specific surgical planning for Radical Prostatectomy
Planning uses PSA, biopsy grade and volume, digital examination and, where indicated, MRI of the prostate and PSMA or other metabolic imaging. Pelvic node risk and whether disease appears confined decide both the resection and whether radiation is a reasonable alternative.
Earlier chemotherapy, radiation or surgery alter tissue planes and operative risk, so those records matter as much as the current scan.
Margins, lymph nodes and what pathology decides
The specimen is examined for grade, extra-prostatic extension, seminal-vesicle involvement, margin status and the number of involved nodes. Those findings drive adjuvant radiation and systemic-therapy decisions.
A cancer operation is judged on margin clearance and assessment of the nodes at risk, not on the size of the incision.
When the planned operation changes during surgery
A planned nerve-sparing dissection may be abandoned if the tumour is found more extensive than imaging suggested, and robotic cases may convert to open for bleeding or adhesions. Consent should state both possibilities.
Multidisciplinary care and treatment sequencing
Surgery is one of the curative local options. Pathology of the prostate and nodes — margin, extra-prostatic extension, seminal-vesicle involvement and nodal deposits — then decides whether adjuvant radiation or systemic therapy is discussed.
Ask who owns each step and who decides the next one: treatment before surgery can change what operation is possible.
Function, rehabilitation and what may change permanently
Some change in urinary control is expected in the early months, and erectile function can change even when nerves are spared. Pelvic-floor physiotherapy and a planned sexual-function review are part of treatment, not optional extras.
Rehabilitation is part of the treatment, yet it is frequently excluded from surgical estimates. Confirm what is included and what continues at home.
Follow-up, surveillance and international travel
The home team should receive the operation note, pathology and PSA schedule, then coordinate pelvic-floor physiotherapy, sexual-function support, and adjuvant radiation or systemic therapy where advised. Discharge from the ward is not the same as clearance to fly.
Radical Prostatectomy cost: India vs other medical tourism destinations
India and United States values are stored GAF catalog ranges. Other countries need direct quotations, because comparable cancer-surgery packages are not held in the catalog.
A meaningful comparison holds diagnosis, resection and nodal scope, surgeon, facility, pathology depth and ward nights constant.
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| Country | Approximate cost | Relative cost position | Important cost considerations |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | $7,000–$18,000 | Baseline | GAF catalog planning range. The stored India figure is a national planning range for the operation and its stated admission. It does not establish resectability, surgical scope, nodal plan, reconstruction, pathology depth or a final quotation. |
| Turkey | Confirmation requiredIndicative planning estimate* | Higher than India | Quotation required. Compare the exact resection, nodal dissection, reconstruction, frozen-section policy, intensive-care assumption, ward nights and complication terms rather than a headline cancer-surgery package. |
| Thailand | Confirmation requiredIndicative planning estimate* | Higher than India | Depends on procedure and hospital. International coordination does not by itself establish case acceptance, multidisciplinary review, reconstructive cover or continuity of adjuvant treatment after the patient returns home. |
| United Arab Emirates | Confirmation requiredIndicative planning estimate* | Higher than India | Quotation required. Surgeon, facility, anaesthesia, consumable, histopathology and follow-up charges are frequently billed separately, so a single quoted figure may not be the comparable one. |
| Singapore | Confirmation requiredIndicative planning estimate* | Higher than India | Varies significantly. Request a self-pay estimate tied to the specific cancer, the planned resection and nodal scope and the expected admission. Subsidised local billing and private international billing differ. |
| Germany | Confirmation requiredIndicative planning estimate* | Higher than India | Varies significantly. Eligibility, professional billing, pathology scope and post-travel oncology follow-up need direct confirmation. Inpatient norms after major cancer surgery are often longer than in self-pay markets. |
| United Kingdom | Confirmation requiredIndicative planning estimate* | Higher than India | Private self-pay varies. Overseas patients should verify acceptance, quotation boundaries, emergency access and who reviews final histology and decides adjuvant treatment once they have travelled home. |
| United States | $30,000–$70,000 | ≈4× India | Stored self-pay reference. Facility, surgeon, anaesthesia, pathology and follow-up charges are usually separate, and $30,000–$70,000 is a comparison range for the operation rather than a bundled cancer-treatment quotation. |
Comparisons are indicative and may not represent identical operations. Tumour extent, added resection, complications, currency and length of stay change the final amount.
The point of this table is not that one country is better. Cost level and treatment-market structure are different things. Compare the named hospital, multidisciplinary support, included care and follow-up pathway as carefully as the headline figure.
Which destination is right for you?
Use this only as a reading guide for the table above. It is not a medical recommendation, and it does not rank countries.
Looking for the lowest overall treatment cost?
IndiaLooking for premium private hospital infrastructure?
Singapore / UAELooking for proximity from the Middle East?
UAE / India / TurkeyLooking for established European oncology systems?
Germany / UK
Why do international patients consider India for radical prostatectomy?
Patients evaluate India for access to a named urologic oncologist, multidisciplinary cancer services in one city, and a self-pay planning range below the stored United States reference. Cost alone is not a clinical reason to travel.
What matters is individual acceptance, procedure-specific experience, intensive-care support, histopathology quality, reconstructive cover where relevant, and who continues adjuvant treatment.
No provider is ranked here and no outcome is promised. Unstable illness, or treatment already under way locally, can make an elective trip inappropriate.
Hospitals for Radical Prostatectomy in India
Cards follow exact CMS relationships for Radical Prostatectomy. Accreditation alone does not establish current case acceptance.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital
JCI Accredited
NABH Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
1 listed doctor for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi
Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
3 listed doctors for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi, Marathi
Artemis Hospital
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
- DHADHA
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
1 listed doctor for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi
BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
NABL Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
1 listed doctor for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi
Fortis Memorial Research Institute
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
- NABL Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
1 listed doctor for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi
Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
- NABL Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
2 listed doctors for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi
Medanta - The Medicity
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
- NABL Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
2 listed doctors for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi
Medicover Hospital, Navi Mumbai
- JCI Accredited
- NABH Accredited
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
- Medical Oncology
- Hematology
1 listed doctor for this pathway
Languages listed: English, Hindi, Marathi
Radical Prostatectomy hospitals in India · Talk to a treatment coordinator
Surgical oncologists to consider for Radical Prostatectomy in India
Profiles appear only where Radical Prostatectomy is an exact current CMS relationship. Placement is not a ranking or an outcome claim.
Dr. Ashwin Sunil Tamhankar
Surgical Oncology
9+ Years Experience
Radical Prostatectomy · Kidney Cancer Surgery · Bladder Cancer Surgery
English, Hindi, Marathi
Dr. Anant Kumar
Urology
40+ years Experience
Kidney Transplant Surgery (Living Donor,… · Living Donor Kidney Transplant · Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant
English, Hindi
Dr. Mallikarjuna Reddy N
Urology
31+ years Experience
Kidney Transplant Surgery · Radical Prostatectomy · Radical Cystectomy
English, Telugu, Hindi
Dr. Shrikanth Atluri
Surgical Oncology
12+ Years Experience
Radical Prostatectomy · Prostate Cancer Surgery · Kidney Cancer Surgery
English, Hindi, Marathi
Dr. Gagan Gautam
Urology
20+ years Experience
Radical Prostatectomy · Prostate Cancer Surgery · Kidney Cancer Surgery
English, Hindi
Dr. Rajesh Goud E
Surgical Oncology
16+ Years Experience
Breast Cancer Surgery · Breast-Conserving Surgery · Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
English, Telugu, Hindi
Dr. Varun Agarwal
Urology
11+ years Experience
Radical Prostatectomy · Kidney Cancer Surgery · Bladder Cancer Surgery (Radical Cystectom…
English, Hindi, Marathi
Dr. Rajiv Yadav
Urology
25+ years Experience
Radical Prostatectomy (Robotic-assisted) · Kidney Cancer Surgery (Robotic partial/ra… · Radical Cystectomy (Robotic-assisted for…
English, Hindi
Radical Prostatectomy doctors in India (17 listed) · Get a personalized cost estimate
Radical Prostatectomy cost by city in India
The five listed cities retain $7,000–$18,000 because no verified city tariffs are stored. Their overlays add airport geography, climate, lodging and recovery logistics rather than local prices.
Cards resolve only from CMS entities carrying the exact Radical Prostatectomy relationship, so missing mappings leave cards empty.
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Delhi NCR
$7,000–$18,000
India planning band — not a city quote
Typical stay 3–7 nights
No verified Delhi NCR-only tariff is stored for radical prostatectomy. Use $7,000–$18,000 as the national planning range until a named provider issues an itemized estimate; it is not a city price.
16 hospitals · 10 doctors
Mumbai
$7,000–$18,000
India planning band — not a city quote
Typical stay 3–7 nights
No verified Mumbai-only tariff is stored for radical prostatectomy. Use $7,000–$18,000 as the national planning range until a named provider issues an itemized estimate; it is not a city price.
5 hospitals · 4 doctors
Bengaluru
$7,000–$18,000
India planning band — not a city quote
Typical stay 3–7 nights
No verified Bengaluru-only tariff is stored for radical prostatectomy. Use $7,000–$18,000 as the national planning range until a named provider issues an itemized estimate; it is not a city price.
3 hospitals · consultant match on request
Chennai
$7,000–$18,000
India planning band — not a city quote
Typical stay 3–7 nights
No verified Chennai-only tariff is stored for radical prostatectomy. Use $7,000–$18,000 as the national planning range until a named provider issues an itemized estimate; it is not a city price.
5 hospitals · consultant match on request
Hyderabad
$7,000–$18,000
India planning band — not a city quote
Typical stay 3–7 nights
No verified Hyderabad-only tariff is stored for radical prostatectomy. Use $7,000–$18,000 as the national planning range until a named provider issues an itemized estimate; it is not a city price.
6 hospitals · 3 doctors
Costs vary considerably by hospital, specialist, clinical complexity, insurance, room or day-care category, and what is included in the package.
Choosing a city for radical prostatectomy
Patients usually pick the treating team first and the city second. The city still affects daily travel, accommodation, companion arrangements and access to follow-up. Here is what genuinely differs between the five cities we list.
What should international patients budget beyond the surgery?
The surgical estimate is only one line in a medical-travel budget. The rows below separate hospital charges from living and travel costs so you can plan without treating a brochure package as a trip total.
- Treatment episode$7,000–$18,000
- Pre-operative testsOften inside the estimate — confirm
- Hospital stay3–7 nights typically bundled
- Additional procedures or extended careQuoted separately if advised
- Accommodation for companionVaries by city and length of stay
- Local transportationAirport and daily hospital transfers
- FlightsDepends on origin
- Medical visaFee set by the issuing consulate
Planning estimate — not a hospital quotation.
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What does medical travel for radical prostatectomy in India involve?
The sequence below is how a records-first pathway normally runs. The order matters: everything before arrival exists so that you are not making decisions in an unfamiliar hospital corridor with a suitcase beside you.
Submit records
Biopsy, imaging files, treatment summaries, laboratory results.
Specialist review
A named urologic oncologist reads imaging and pathology.
Pathology verification
Local slide review can change diagnosis or grade.
Staging assessment
Remaining imaging or nodal sampling.
Multidisciplinary opinion
Surgery, oncology and pathology together.
Written treatment plan
Intent, resection scope, nodal plan, admission.
Itemized cost estimate
Surgery and stay quoted apart from adjuvant therapy.
Medical visa and travel
An invitation letter supports the visa.
Arrival and reassessment
Examination, repeat tests, anaesthetic clearance, consent.
Surgery
The consented radical prostatectomy and planned monitoring.
Monitored recovery
Ward care, mobilisation, wound and drain review.
Pathology review
Margins, nodes and further testing discussed.
Return home and handover
Documents, medicines, a named clinician for follow-up.
Documents to prepare
- PSA history and prostate biopsy report with grade and core involvement
- Prostate MRI or metabolic imaging files where already performed
- Baseline continence and sexual-function notes
- Imaging files on a disc or drive rather than screen photographs
- Paraffin blocks or slides where the home laboratory releases them
- Summaries of previous chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy or radiation
- Operative notes from earlier cancer or regional surgery
- Current medicines, allergies and previous anaesthetic problems
- Recent blood count, kidney and liver results
- Passport, visa and companion details
Clinical detail
How the operation is performed
The prostate and seminal vesicles are removed through an open incision or a robotic platform, the bladder is joined to the urethra over a catheter, nerves are preserved where the tumour allows, and pelvic nodes are taken when planned. A drain is often left.
The specimen goes to histopathology. Theatre time is commonly 2–4 hours, longer when pelvic nodes are dissected.
Main variations
- Open retropubic prostatectomy
- Direct access through a lower abdominal incision.
- Robotic-assisted prostatectomy
- The same anatomical resection performed from a surgeon-controlled console.
- Nerve-sparing dissection
- Keeps one or both neurovascular bundles when oncology allows.
- Non-nerve-sparing resection
- Takes a wider margin when extra-prostatic extension is likely.
- With pelvic lymph node dissection
- Adds staging or treatment of the pelvic nodes at risk.
Preparation
Assessment commonly includes PSA trend, biopsy and imaging review, continence and sexual-function baseline, anaesthetic checks and a discussion of alternatives. Not every patient needs every scan.
Reconcile blood thinners, diabetes medicines, inhalers and allergies before travel. Consent should name the resection scope, the nodal plan and what findings could change either.
Hospital stay and recovery
Admission is frequently three to seven nights, with a urethral catheter left in place after discharge for a planned interval. Recovery is led by catheter care, pelvic-floor exercises, a gradual return of continence, and a defined interval before assessing erectile function rather than a fixed date for flying home.
Recognised risks include bleeding, infection, urine leak at the join, narrowing of the join, temporary or lasting incontinence, change in erectile function, lymph leak if nodes are taken, and rectal injury in rare cases.
Seek urgent help for inability to pass urine after catheter removal, heavy bleeding, fever, calf swelling, sudden breathlessness, or increasing abdominal pain.
How to compare Radical Prostatectomy quotes from Indian hospitals
Print these and work through them on the video call. A house that answers without hedging is telling you something useful about how it will behave when something goes wrong.
- Why is radical prostatectomy recommended, and what alternatives remain?
- Is the intent curative or symptom control?
- Who is the named urologic oncologist, and at which campus?
- What will be removed, and what will be preserved?
- What function may change permanently?
- What findings could change the consented scope?
- Was this case discussed at a tumour board?
- Is any treatment recommended before surgery?
- Which existing tests are accepted rather than repeated?
- Which surgeon, anaesthesia and facility fees are included?
- Which implants or consumables are assumed?
- Will frozen section be used, and is it included?
- Which histopathology and molecular tests are included?
- Is reconstruction inside this estimate?
- How are transfusion, intensive care and extra nights billed?
- How many nights and which room category are assumed?
- Which rehabilitation follows discharge?
- What warning signs need urgent review before I fly?
- When is histopathology ready, and who explains it?
- Who delivers adjuvant treatment if advised?
- Is nerve-sparing planned on one side, both, or neither, and what would change that?
- Are pelvic nodes included in this estimate?
- How many catheter days are assumed, and is continence physiotherapy included?
Why your final Radical Prostatectomy cost may be different
This page carries a planning range. A hospital letter is an estimate written against a named operation, surgeon, room category and stated nights, so the two are not expected to match.
If two hospitals quote differently, read the line items before assuming one is overcharging: one may include frozen section and immunohistochemistry while the other bills them later.
A total medical trip costs more than the operation. Flights, visas, transport, lodging, an attendant, medicines, pathology and extra nights sit outside the surgical estimate.
Frequently asked questions
How much does radical prostatectomy cost in India?
$7,000–$18,000 is a national planning range rather than a quotation. Resection scope, nodal dissection, reconstruction, pathology depth and length of stay determine the final bill.
What is radical prostatectomy?
Radical prostatectomy removes the prostate gland and seminal vesicles to treat localised prostate cancer, with the pelvic lymph nodes taken when staging shows they are at material risk.
What decides how extensive the operation is?
A nerve-sparing operation aims to keep the neurovascular bundles when the tumour does not reach them, while a wider resection is used when extra-prostatic extension is likely.
Which staging is needed before surgery?
Planning uses PSA, biopsy grade and volume, digital examination and, where indicated, MRI of the prostate and PSMA or other metabolic imaging.
Who may be considered for this operation?
It is generally considered for clinically localised prostate cancer in a man whose life expectancy and other illnesses make curative local treatment appropriate.
How long does radical prostatectomy take?
Theatre time is commonly 2–4 hours, longer when pelvic nodes are dissected. Findings and any reconstruction can change it.
How long is the hospital stay?
Admission is frequently three to seven nights, with a urethral catheter left in place after discharge for a planned interval. Clinical criteria, not a schedule, determine discharge.
What are the important risks?
Recognised risks include bleeding, infection, urine leak at the join, narrowing of the join, temporary or lasting incontinence, change in erectile function, lymph leak if nodes are taken, and rectal injury in rare cases.
What may change permanently after this surgery?
Some change in urinary control is expected in the early months, and erectile function can change even when nerves are spared.
Will treatment be needed after the operation?
Surgery is one of the curative local options. Final histopathology usually decides this.
When can an international patient fly home?
There is no fixed date. Recovery is led by catheter care, pelvic-floor exercises, a gradual return of continence, and a defined interval before assessing erectile function rather than a fixed date for flying home. The team must confirm fitness to fly.
What follow-up is needed after returning home?
The home team should receive the operation note, pathology and PSA schedule, then coordinate pelvic-floor physiotherapy, sexual-function support, and adjuvant radiation or systemic therapy where advised.
Dr. Shabnam Choudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She contributes to the curation and development of medically informative healthcare content, helping ensure that information is structured clearly and presented in a patient-friendly manner.
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Dr. Shabnam Choudhary
BDS
Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru
Dr. Saffiyyah Chaudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She provides medical review of healthcare content to help ensure that clinical information is accurate, understandable, and appropriately presented for patients and their families.
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Dr. Saffiyyah Chaudhary
BDS
Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru
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Cost note
Cost ranges on this page are for preliminary planning and comparison only. The final treatment cost depends on the patient's diagnosis, treatment plan, hospital, doctor, procedure complexity and other clinical factors. A personalized quotation should be obtained before making treatment or travel decisions.
This page is general information about treatment costs and pathways. It is not a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation or a substitute for an individualised medical opinion. Decisions about whether this procedure is appropriate for you belong to a qualified doctor who has reviewed your records.
Last updated 15 September 2026. Cost data is maintained separately from this article and refreshed as listed campuses revise their planning ranges.
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