Wei Huang, MB, MSc named Co-Director of Prostate & Genitourinary Cancer Program
Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
PROSTATE CANCER PATIENT DISCUSSES HIS EXPERIENCE ON UWCCC CLINICAL TRIAL - La Crosse Prostate Cancer Patient Lives His Life By Trial. He Believes It's Helping Him And Hopes It Helps Others.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for more than $4 million was recently awarded to the UW to fund a George M. O'Brien Urology Research Center. Wade Bushman, MD, PhD, is the principal investigator of the grant entitled "Mechanisms for Acquired Changes in Prostate Growth Regulation."
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson presented a $7 million federal grant to the UW Comprehensive Cancer last Friday. For complete details, please read the press release here.
A New surgical technique that, based on early results, has preserved sexual function for several men who would have been permanently impotent after conventional prostate surgery.(UW Health News Release)
New Prostate Surgery Methods Address Sex, Urinary Problems (appearing in the Milwaukee State Journal on January 27, 2003)
First laparoscopic prostate removal - UW Urology surgeons have tried a new way to remove cancerous prostate glands that they hope will make the operation easier for men to tolerate and cut the odds of it resulting in impotence. (Associated Press) UW Health - News Release - UW HEALTH SURGEON PIONEERS NEW PROSTATE SURGERY IN THE STATE
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