#RoboticSurgery #cystectomy #BladderRemoval #BladderCancer MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: If you are a man and have bladder cancer, your doctor may recommend a robotic radical cystectomy to remove your bladder and prostate gland. Your bladder is located in your pelvis behind your pubic bone. Your kidneys make urine, which travels down the ureters to your bladder, where it is stored until you are ready to urinate. Your prostate gland is located just beneath your bladder. Passing through your prostate is the urethra, the tube through which urine exits your body. Each of your vas deferens combines with a seminal vesicle to form an ejaculatory duct, which attaches to your prostate gland. The innermost layer of your bladder is called a transitional cell epithelium or urothelium. Transitional cell or urothelial carcinoma, the most common type of bladder cancer, begins in this layer when an abnormal cell grows out of control. As the cancer cells multiply, a tumor forms. The tumor may form ...