February 2014 | Oncology Live Urologists in Cancer Care®

LUGPA Aims to Help Practices Thrive: Leaders Discuss Progress and Goals

April 01, 2014

During the annual meeting of the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) in Chicago in November 2013, the organization's president, Deepak A. Kapoor, MD, completed his 2-year term and handed the gavel to incoming president Juan A. Reyna, MD.

What Does Good Look Like?

March 20, 2014

When I first entered practice in 1990, I was fortunate to have senior partners and colleagues who offered sage advice, much of it based on retrospective analysis of their own successes and failures over time.

Hospital Admissions and Rectal Procedures are More Common After Radiotherapy Than Prostatectomy

March 18, 2014

Men with clinically localized prostate cancer who were treated with radiotherapy were more likely, over the subsequent 5 years, to be admitted to a hospital, undergo rectal, anal, or open surgical procedures, or develop secondary malignancies than men treated with radical prostatectomy

Some With Micropapillary Urothelial Carcinoma May Benefit From HER2-Targeted Treatment

February 27, 2014

Some patients with micropapillary urothelial carcinoma face a three-fold risk of cancer death because their disease amplifies HER2 and overexpresses its protein product, and there may be a role for treatment of the condition with HER2- targeted agent trastuzumab, which has vastly increased the odds of survival for eligible patients with breast cancer.