Pascal Mancuso
UNSW Sydney, Liverpool Hospital, South Western Sydney Local Health District
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About
Pascal Mancuso is a health services researcher whose work sits at the critical intersection of patient decision-making and surgical innovation in urology. His research focuses on how men with localised prostate cancer navigate the preference-sensitive choice between robotic prostatectomy and radiotherapy—treatments with comparable cure rates but vastly different side-effect profiles. Mancuso’s most impactful study, “Robot or radiation?” (2019, 21 citations), is a qualitative investigation that directly captures the decision support needs of patients facing this dilemma, revealing the emotional and informational gaps in current clinical practice. He has also contributed to the field of surgical education, co-authoring a 2016 review on the transferability of skills from virtual reality simulators to clinical robotic surgery, a topic of growing importance as simulation training expands in Australia. His 2021 study on decisional outcomes following a combined clinic model reports low conflict and high satisfaction among patients, offering a practical, patient-centred solution to a complex choice. Mancuso’s work, including the protocol for the PREPaRE study (2017), provides essential evidence for designing decision aids and clinical pathways that truly serve patient needs.
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