Sentences with phrase «urologic surgery at»
«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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«This study demonstrates that targeted fusion - guided biopsy could significantly enhance our ability to identify patients with high - risk prostate cancers that need more aggressive treatment,» says lead author Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of urologic robotic surgery at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
Jim Hu, a urologic oncologist at NewYork - Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, said he was struck by the «significant differences in the likelihood of metastatic disease,» which he said could eventually translate into a survival benefit for the men who got surgery or radiation.
Herrell performed the first robotic partial nephrectomy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 2009, and he is one of a small number of urologic surgeons in the United States who now perform a large number of these minimally invasive surgeries.
In this Father's Day Edition of the Breeze Knows, Anita Velardo talks with Dr. Isaac Kim, Director of the Urologic Oncology Program at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and assistant professor of surgery at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.