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Treatments for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Current treatments generally focus on oral medications or invasive surgery, which can have side effects. The prostatic urethral lift and water steam therapy are effective, non-invasive treatments for BPH.
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Featured
Multiparametric MRI/Ultrasound Fusion Biopsy Improves Prostate Cancer Detection
Active surveillance (AS) has become an accepted way to manage prostate cancer in men at lower risk. Multiparametric MRI can be used in conjunction with the standard transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy to improve detection of clinically significant cancers.
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BPH Supplements Have Little Support for Efficacy and Safety
To better advise patients about herbal remedies for prostate enlargement or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), researchers scoured the scientific literature for evidence on every individual ingredient of every available supplement.
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Noninvasive Assay Predicts Drug Response, Early Dissemination in Prostate Cancer
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a digital assay that quantifies prostate tumor cells in blood samples, and the results predict response to the drug abiraterone in metastatic cancer or early dissemination of localized disease.
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Options for Managing Post-prostatectomy Urinary Incontinence
With more treatment options available to radical prostatectomy patients who experience post-prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence, patients will continue to enjoy improvements in quality of life.
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Advantages of Robot-assisted Techniques for Urologic Surgeries
Robotic surgery can decrease blood loss and patient pain, lead to a shorter recovery time than a traditional laparoscopic approach, and offers surgeons a shorter learning curve.
Prostate contributors
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Adam Scott Feldman, MD, MPH
Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship
Recent Article
The Results of the First Penis Transplantation in U.S.
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Douglas Middleton Dahl, MD
Chief, Division of Urologic Oncology, Director of Robotic Surgery, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Noninvasive Assay Predicts Drug Response, Early Dissemination in Prostate Cancer
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Francis James McGovern, MD
Urologist
Recent Article
Noninvasive Assay Predicts Drug Response, Early Dissemination in Prostate Cancer
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Jason A. Efstathiou, MD, Dphil
Director, Genitourinary Service, Department of Radiation Oncology, Clinical Co-Director, The Claire and John Bertucci Center for Genitourinary Cancers Multidisciplinary Clinic
Recent Article
New Clues Emerge on Management of Recurrent Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer After Trimodality Therapy -
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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Mukesh G. Harisinghani, MD
Director, Abdominal MRI
Recent Article
Improving the Safety of Vena Caval Thrombectomy in Kidney Cancer with Tumor Thrombus Team Approach -
Shahin Tabatabaei, MD
Director, Prostate Health Program
Recent Article
BPH Supplements Have Little Support for Efficacy and Safety
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