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Category Archives: urology
Science Is Art Is Science: Shining a light on cancer
Urologists at Upstate now offer Blue Light Cystoscopy, a technology that significantly improves the detection of bladder cancers. An hour before the procedure, patients receive about 2 ounces of Cysview imaging solution through a catheter. Cancer cells absorb the solution. … Continue reading
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Shining a blue light on bladder cancer
BY AMBER SMITH Bladder cancers typically appear in multiple spots in the bladder, and they tend to recur. So, patients undergo repeated cystoscopies, procedures in which doctors peer into their bladders with cameras in search of cancerous cells. A new tool, available … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Light Cystoscopy
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Relief after reconstructive surgery: How one man had his urethral stricture repaired
BY AMBER SMITH Hemant Tandi knows other men suffer, as he did. He wants them to know how he was helped, because maybe they can be, too. For 30 years, Tandi, 58, of Endicott experienced slow, burning urination. It wasn’t until … Continue reading
Posted in health care, patient story, surgery, urology
Tagged buccal mucosa graft, reconstructive urology, urethral strictures
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He chose radiation treatment for his prostate cancer
BY JIM HOWE Jan Roberts wasn’t sure what to expect when he received radiation treatments for prostate cancer at the Upstate Cancer Center. A disabled Vietnam veteran, he receives primary care at the Syracuse VA Medical Center, where he was … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, health care, medical imaging/radiology, patient story, technology, urology
Tagged prostate cancer, prostate cancer treatment, PTSD, Vero radiation system, Vietnam veteran
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‘A perfect example of why we became doctors’: Survival depended on a medical team, skillful surgery and a patient’s will to live
BY AMBER SMITH Pat Graham of Lansing wasn’t feeling well the evening of Aug. 31, 2017. A self-described borderline diabetic, he asked his wife to bring a glucose test kit when she came home from her job at Rite-Aid. By … Continue reading
Posted in health care, infectious disease, patient story, surgery, urology, weight loss
Tagged Fournier's gangrene
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Will this tumor cause trouble? Need treatment? Researcher seeks answers in gene he discovered
BY AMBER SMITH Ever since he discovered a gene that causes prostate cancer 20 years ago, Upstate cancer researcher Leszek Kotula, MD, PhD, has focused on understanding the mysteries of the cancer that, besides skin cancer, is most common in … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, health care, men's health, research, urology
Tagged Abi1 gene, prostate cancer, prostate cancer research
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Kidney cancer survivor says: Don’t ignore possible symptoms
BY JIM HOWE Cancer survivor Alf Jacques has a message for people who notice unusual or troubling health symptoms. “Get tested.” The famed maker of traditional wooden lacrosse sticks noticed blood in his urine in June 2016 and quickly had … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, health care, kidney/renal/nephrology, patient story, prevention/preventive medicine, surgery, technology, urology
Tagged clear cell carcinoma, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, kindly cancer, radical nephrectomy, RCC, renal cell adenocarcinoma, renal cell cancer, renal cell carcinoma
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Leaks are a risk for prostate cancer survivors, national research shows
BY AMBER SMITH When men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, their focus becomes treatment of the cancer. The complications of incontinence and erectile dysfunction are considerations, but the priority is usually survival. Once the cancer is under control, these treatment … Continue reading
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First chemo … then vacation, for this Upstate patient
BY SUSAN KEETER “I am so sorry you have to give me this bad news,” Margit Foti, 71, remembers telling her urologist, Elizabeth Ferry, MD, on the day Foti learned that she had a rare bladder cancer with a poor prognosis. … Continue reading
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Tagged chemotherapy, signet ring cell adenocarcinoma
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Open wide and say ‘aha!’: Urologist looks to patient’s mouths for help repairing urethral strictures
BY AMBER SMITH Only an innovative scientist with expertise in reconstructive urology would look at the inside lining of the cheek and wonder how those cells would behave if transplanted into the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the … Continue reading
Posted in health care, HealthLink on Air, research, surgery, urology
Tagged buccal mucosa, liquid grafts, minimally invasive surgery, minimally invasive urologic surgery, reconstructive urology, urethral strictures, urologic surgery innovations
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