Prostate cancer managed with active surveillance: role of anatomic MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imagingVincent Fradet
Department of Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif, USA
Radiology 256:176-83. 2010
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Urologist density and county-level urologic cancer mortalityAnobel Y Odisho
Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 1695, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:2499-504. 2010
..The goal of this study was to determine the effect of increasing urologist density on local prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer mortality...
Poor agreement of prostate specific antigen doubling times calculated using ultrasensitive versus standard prostate specific antigen values: important impact on risk assessmentAdam C Reese
Department of Urology, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94115, USA
J Urol 186:2228-32. 2011
..2 ng/ml) accurately reflects measures performed in the traditional range (prostate specific antigen greater than 0.2 ng/ml)...
Pathological outcomes of candidates for active surveillance of prostate cancerSimon L Conti
Department of Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Urol 181:1628-33; discussion 1633-4. 2009
..We evaluated the pathological outcomes of men meeting published criteria for active surveillance who elected immediate radical prostatectomy to assess the risk of under grading and under staging in candidates for active surveillance...
Penile sonographic and clinical characteristics in men with Peyronie's diseaseJames F Smith
University of California Department of Urology, 1600 Divisadero, Box 1695, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Sex Med 6:2858-67. 2009
..Ultrasonography of the penis is readily available to the urologist and gives good anatomic detail of soft tissue structures. It has not been widely utilized in the assessment of Peyronie's disease (PD)...
Geographic distribution of urologists throughout the United States using a county level approachAnobel Y Odisho
Department of Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 1695, USA
J Urol 181:760-5; discussion 765-6. 2009
..We assessed the geographic distribution of urologists throughout the United States at the county level and determined the county characteristics associated with increased urologist density...
Omega-3 fatty acids, genetic variants in COX-2 and prostate cancerAdam C Reese
Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics 2:149-58. 2009
..Overall, results to date support the hypothesis that long-chain omega-3 PUFAs may impact prostate inflammation and carcinogenesis via the COX-2 enzymatic pathway...
Dietary omega-3 fatty acids, cyclooxygenase-2 genetic variation, and aggressive prostate cancer riskVincent Fradet
Departments of Urology, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0794, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:2559-66. 2009
..This potential effect may be modified by genetic variation in cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), a key enzyme in fatty acid metabolism and inflammation...