This new year, make a resolution to improve your health and talk to your doctor about urologic conditions. Although urologic problems may seem embarrassing to talk about, these conditions are more common than you think and a delay in seeking medical attention could cause you unnecessary stress, prolong the problem and even increase your risk for a more serious condition… Read Full Article

UroToday.com – In the December, 2009 online edition of the Journal of Urology, Drs. Caroline Savage and Andrew Vickers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center show surprising data on how few radical prostatectomies (RP) many American urologists perform. The authors cite previous work that correlates surgical volume with complication rates and outcomes… Read Full Article

UroToday.com – The impact of body mass index (BMI) on PSA levels is small according to a report by Dr. Stacy Loeb and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute on Aging that appears in the December, 2009 online edition of the Journal of Urology. The problem is defined by the fact that in 2001-2002, 65… Read Full Article

UroToday.com – Ours is a retrospective review of patients who underwent open retroperitoneal lymph node dissection between 2001-2008… Read Full Article

Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI) announced the publication of results from its study on the anti-tumor mechanism of BN107. The results of the study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, describe the potential molecular mechanisms mediating the selective pro-apoptotic (cell death) effect induced by BN107 on estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast cancer cells… Read Full Article

UroToday.com – Ours is a retrospective review of patients who underwent open retroperitoneal lymph node dissection between 2001-2008… Read Full Article

UroToday.com – Management of advanced renal cell carcinoma remains an extremely difficult scenario in urologic oncology. In the setting of non-metastatic renal carcinoma with tumor thrombus invading into the inferior vena cava, complete extirpirative surgery, including thrombectomy and nephrectomy has been shown to have acceptable oncologic and long-term outcomes for the patients [1, 2]… Read...

UroToday.com – The impact of body mass index (BMI) on PSA levels is small according to a report by Dr. Stacy Loeb and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute on Aging that appears in the December, 2009 online edition of the Journal of Urology. The problem is defined by the fact that in 2001-2002, 65… Read Full Article

Gail Entner Sonenshein, PhD, a professor in the department of biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, and director of the School’s Program in Research on Women’s Health, has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers… Read Full Article

Charles Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the distinction of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society… Read Full Article