Abstract

Investigators in the Urologic Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute are the urologic surgeons and general urology consultants to the entire National Institutes of Health. In this role we see patients in consultation for all pediatric and adult urologic surgical problems. The Urologic Oncology Branch answers all emergency, as well as elective urologic surgical consultations and provides 24 hour coverage for urologic surgical emergencies that may arise in the Clinical Center Hospital. Increasing surgery in AIDS patients is being performed. The Urologic Oncology Branch also collaborates in the procurement of tissue for studies required by other investigative units. The degree of involvement of the Urologic Oncology Branch in the planning and execution of these studies is variable. The Urologic Oncology Branch often plays an instrumental role in the design of these studies while in other collaborations, the Urologic Surgical Service merely provides tissue. Approximately 30% of the clinical surgical effort of the Urologic Oncology Branch is devoted to these consultative and collaborative studies.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Clinical Support Services Intramural Research (ZID)
Project #
1ZIDBC011092-03
Application #
8158430
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Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$2,562,624
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
National Cancer Institute Division of Basic Sciences
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  Publications

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Shuch, Brian; Bratslavsky, Gennady; Shih, Joanna et al. (2012) Impact of pathological tumour characteristics in patients with sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma. BJU Int 109:1600-6
Mena, Esther; Turkbey, Baris; Mani, Haresh et al. (2012) 11C-Acetate PET/CT in localized prostate cancer: a study with MRI and histopathologic correlation. J Nucl Med 53:538-45
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Volkin, Dmitry; Yerram, Nitin; Ahmed, Faisal et al. (2012) Partial adrenalectomy minimizes the need for long-term hormone replacement in pediatric patients with pheochromocytoma and von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. J Pediatr Surg 47:2077-82

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