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About
Thomas Steuber is a urological surgeon and clinical researcher whose work has profoundly shaped the modern practice of radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. Based primarily at the Martini Clinic Prostate Cancer Center in Hamburg, he has dedicated his career to optimizing surgical techniques, improving oncological outcomes, and preserving patients' quality of life following prostate cancer surgery. Steuber is perhaps best known for his pioneering role in developing and refining the NeuroSAFE technique — a neurovascular structure-adjacent frozen-section examination that enables surgeons to maximize nerve-sparing while minimizing positive surgical margins. His landmark 2012 paper documenting outcomes across 11,069 patients has accumulated 280 citations and established NeuroSAFE as a transformative intraoperative tool. He has further advanced this technique for robot-assisted platforms and demonstrated that full functional-length urethral sphincter preservation significantly improves long-term continence. Beyond technical innovation, Steuber has produced influential comparative analyses of open versus robotic radical prostatectomy — drawing on one of the world's largest institutional databases — examining oncological equivalence, complication profiles, and pain management across nearly 11,000 patients. His body of work, spanning over a decade and amassing hundreds of citations, has become essential reading for surgeons and researchers committed to evidence-based urological oncology.
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