Assistant Professor in Surgery /Urology

Director of Research

Section of Urologic Oncology

University of Colorado Denver (UCD)

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Fellow of the Royal College of

Physicians and Surgeons

Glasgow / United Kingdom

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Distinguished Teaching Physician Award

State of Colorado Medical License

Fast Facts about prostate cancer

• Prostate Cancer affects more than a quarter million men in the USA every year. One out of ten of these men will die from prostate cancer.

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  The majority of these men will survive the disease with or without treatment. However, our efforts to identify exactly which patients will benefit from treatment remain incomplete.

• The treatment options available for early stage organ-confined and low risk prostate cancer have been controversial.

• Widespread screening has been cited as a cause of overdiagnosis of the disease.
  
• A substantial number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are overtreated.

New England Journal of Medicine