Genitourinary Oncology Clinic
Our specialists are leaders in Genitourinary Oncology (cancers of the prostate, bladder, kidney, testis) who, through basic and clinical research, combined with exceptional, personalized clinical care offer the most advanced treatments available. We have listed some of our more common procedures performed and conditions treated. Clinical services offered through our clinic include:
Medical Oncology
Bladder Cancer:
- Chemotherapeutic agents including combination therapy with radiation.
- Novel biological agents
- Clinical trial enrollment
- Long term follow up for patients after treatment
Prostate cancer:
- Second opinion for management of advance cancers.
- Novel hormonal agents.
- Immunotherapy including use of Provenge.
- Clinical trials - locally advance and metastatic prostate cancer.
- Novel therapeutic trials for patients with no further therapeutic options.
- Kidney cancer:
- Novel biological agents for advance cancers.
- Clinical trial resected renal cancer to prevent recurrence
- Novel therapeutic trials in patients resistant to standard therapies
Testicular cancer:
- Chemotherapy for early and advance cancer.
- Fertility preservation options.
- High dose chemotherapy and transplantation.
Urological Oncology
Diagnostics for all genitourinary cancers
- Adrenal Cancer Treatment
- Adrenalectomy (Laparoscopic and open surgical approaches)
- Kidney cancer Treatment
- Partial and total nephrectomy (Laparoscopic and robotic surgery
- Complex surgical treatment of advanced disease
- Renal Pelvic and Ureteral Cancer Treatment
- Surgical Resection (open and laparoscopic approaches)
- Endoscopic and percutaneous (minimally-invasive) techniques for selective cases
- Bladder Cancer Treatments for all stages
- Transurethral Resection
- Intravesical Therapies
- Cystectomy and Partial cystectomy
- Prostate cancer
- Imaging
- 3Tesla MRI imaging of the prostate
- Treatments
- Radical retropubic and perineal prostatectomy
- robotic surgery
- nerve sparing approaches
- Urethral and Penile Cancer Treatments
- Primary Tumor Management
- Nodal Surgery & Management
- Multidisciplinary Management
- Testiscular Cancer Treatments
- Primary Tumor Management
- Nodal Surgery & Management
- Fertility preservation treatments
- Multidisciplinary Management
General Urologic Care
- Erectile dysfunction
- Genitourinary reconstruction
- Urinary Diversions & Bladder Reconstruction
- Kidney stones (renal and ureteral calculi)
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
- Ureteroscopic stone ablation
- Percutaneous stone surgery
- Voiding Dysfunction & Neurourology Evaluation and Management
- Urodynamic Evaluation
- Minimally invasive injection therapies
- Incontinence procedures
- South Texas Pelvic Floor and Bladder Center
- Minimally invasive techniques for benign prostatic hyperplasia (prostate enlargement)
- Pediatric Urology – full spectrum of services through Pediatric Urology subspecialists
- Genitourinary Infections
- Urinary Tract Infections
Radiation Oncology
- Non-surgical organ-sparing treatment of prostate, bladder and penile cancers utilizing IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy) and IGRT (Image Guided Radiation Therapy)
- Treatment of prostate and penile cancer with brachytherapy (radioactive seed implant)
- Adjuvant radiation therapy for patients at high risk of recurrence after surgery for prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular and penile cancers
- Treatment of rare genitourinary cancers: ureteral and urethral cancers
- Salvage radiation therapy for patients with recurrent disease after chemotherapy and/or surgery for genitourinary cancers
- Radionuclide therapy (injectable form of radiation) such as Quadramet for patients with metastatic prostate cancer for relief of symptoms
- Treatment of metastatic cancers for palliation of symptoms and prevention of bone fracture utilizing external beam radiation therapy
- Clinical trials for different kinds of genitourinary cancers
