April 01, 2014
Article
During the annual meeting of the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) in Chicago in November 2013, the organization's president, Deepak A. Kapoor, MD, completed his 2-year term and handed the gavel to incoming president Juan A. Reyna, MD.
March 20, 2014
Article
When I first entered practice in 1990, I was fortunate to have senior partners and colleagues who offered sage advice, much of it based on retrospective analysis of their own successes and failures over time.
March 18, 2014
Article
Men with clinically localized prostate cancer who were treated with radiotherapy were more likely, over the subsequent 5 years, to be admitted to a hospital, undergo rectal, anal, or open surgical procedures, or develop secondary malignancies than men treated with radical prostatectomy
March 11, 2014
Article
Brisk walking helps normalize the shape of vessels in prostate cancer tumors, which may make the tumors less aggressive and more responsive to anti-cancer therapies
March 03, 2014
Article
A review by André P. Fay, MD, on the data supporting the standard use of neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancers.
February 27, 2014
Article
Some patients with micropapillary urothelial carcinoma face a three-fold risk of cancer death because their disease amplifies HER2 and overexpresses its protein product, and there may be a role for treatment of the condition with HER2- targeted agent trastuzumab, which has vastly increased the odds of survival for eligible patients with breast cancer.
February 24, 2014
Article
Long-term outcomes for patients with prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy were better when a spinal or epidural pain block was added to general anesthesia during the surgery.