Specialty Urology
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Featured
Catastrophizing by Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain Varies with Symptom Distribution, Comorbidities
Patients with chronic pelvic pain who have worse symptoms or a higher number of comorbid painful conditions are more likely to report catastrophizing thoughts.
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Featured
Genetic Tests Improve Prognostication for Newly Diagnosed Patients with Prostate Cancer
Genetic tests that aid risk stratification have potential to reduce both over- and undertreatment of prostate cancer.
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Prostate Cancer Patients with Posterior Positive Surgical Margins Have Poorer Prognosis
Shulin Wu, MD, PhD, and Chin-Lee Wu, MD, PhD, of the Departments of Urology and Pathology, present evidence that prostate cancer patients who have posterior positive surgical margins (PSM) after radical prostatectomy have a more aggressive disease than those with anterior PSM.
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Digital Muscle Trainer Benefits Women with Stress-predominant Urinary Incontinence
In the first randomized, controlled trial of its kind, Milena M. Weinstein, MD, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and colleagues found that use of a motion-based digital device for pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) provides benefits beyond those of unsupervised PFMT alone.
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Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate Is Similar to Transurethral Resection
Real-world evidence shows no differences in treatment failure between photoselective vaporization and transurethral resection of the prostate, and endoscopic enucleation might be even more effective, according to Daniel M. Frendl, MD, PhD, and Michelle M. Kim, MD, PhD, and colleagues.
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Improving Outcomes in Pelvic Pain Care
Elise De, MD, and Theodore Stern, MD, co-editors of a new book aimed at helping patients and clinicians pinpoint the etiology of pelvic pain, are part of a multidisciplinary team of Massachusetts General Hospital researchers who are improving pelvic pain outcomes through educational resources and integrated care.
Urology contributors
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Adam Scott Feldman, MD, MPH
Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Urologic Oncologist, Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
New Research Indicates Promising Future for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
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Ajay Nehra, MBBS
Director of Men's Health and Male Reconstructive Surgery, Senior Urologic Surgeon
Recent Article
Advances in Treatment for Peyronie's Disease
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Ajay Singla, MD
Director, Harvard Urologic Surgery Residency Program
Recent Article
Non-Mesh Options for Stress Urinary Incontinence
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Brian Howard Eisner, MD
Co-Director, Kidney Stone Program, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Study Finds No Link Between Ureteral Access Sheaths and Ureteral Lesions
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Dianne E. Sacco, MD
Co-Director, Kidney Stone Program, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Douglas Middleton Dahl, MD
Chief, Division of Urologic Oncology, Director of Robotic Surgery, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Prostate Cancer and Translational Research
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Elise J. De, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School , Chair, Education Committee, International Continence Society, Urologist, FPMRS, Massachusetts General Hospital | Co-editor, Facing Pelvic Pain
Recent Article
Improving Outcomes in Pelvic Pain Care
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Matthew F. Wszolek, MD
Assistant in Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
New Clues Emerge on Management of Recurrent Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer After Trimodality Therapy
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Shahin Tabatabaei, MD
Director, Prostate Health Program
Recent Article
BPH Supplements Have Little Support for Efficacy and Safety
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Siam Oottamasathien, MD
Director of Pediatric Urology Basic Science Research
Recent Article
Interstitial Cystitis Research and Therapeutics to Treat Radiation-induced Proctitis
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