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UCSF Urology reaches important milestone: the 4,000th prostate cancer patient consented to donate tissue specimens for research...

Active surveillance is increasingly used as a management approach for men with low-risk prostate cancer, but until now, there has been little investigation regarding outcomes in younger patients who are often advised to receive treatment.

Can meditating with guided imagery before major urologic cancer surgery reduce stress and improve outcome?

The UCSF Urology community welcomed David B. Joseph, MD, Chief of Pediatric Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, as the 2016 Pediatric Urology Visiting Professor...

Thomas Sanford, MD, along with mentors Sima P. Porten, MD, MPH and Maxwell V. Meng, MD having been working to evaluate the molecular basis of urothelial carcinoma using recent advances in genomics and computational biology...

UCSF urologists Maurice Garcia and Peter Carroll's recently developed app (Kegel Nation), which helps monitor Kegel exercise regimens, is now available in iTunes...

Stacey A. Kenfield, ScD, Assistant Professor, Urology, UCSF published an important article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute late last year showing how vigorous exercise and other healthy habits may protect men from developing lethal prostate cancer.

Davide Ruggero, PhD, and colleagues recently reported on a mechanism that may help explain how prostate cancers develop resistance to drugs that block tumor growth.

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