News & Highlights

UCSF Urology is collaborating with four other sites on a National Institutes of Health-funded study to determine whether phthalates (chemicals that soften plastics), affect urogenital development in human infants.

Pooling information gathered in large, observational studies helps scientists tease out the secrets of prostate cancer.

UCSF Urology's Adult (Non-Cancer) Trauma and Reconstruction is housed at San Francisco General Hospital amidst much new construction...

UCSF is the busiest center for robot-assisted urologic surgery in Northern California, performing all of our prostate cancer surgeries with the aid of this equipment. UCSF Urology has always been at the forefront of surgical innovation...

The pediatric Urology Parent (PUP) seminar is free and open to all parents. The course is presented by a pediatric urology nurse practitioner at UCSF Children’s hospital...

Urology Department Chair Dr. Peter Carroll explains that “active surveillance isn't passively waiting”...

UCSF Urology’s Grand Rounds partial 2013 schedule is now available in the Events section. Upcoming Event speakers include...

UCSF's Hillary Copp, MD, MS and Benjamin N. Breyer, MD, MAS have teamed with Kaiser Permanente, California to look at urological health in a more general population...

In the past 10 years, UCSF researchers have regularly collaborated with colleagues at Harvard University, exploring in tandem possible associations between prostate disease and specific behaviors...

Bladder Cancer Support Group announces the 2013 meeting schedule. The Bladder Cancer Education and Support Group meets the first Thursday of each month from 5:30-7:00pm...