Together, Mike Milken & Felix Feng of UC San Francisco have made a massive impact on the #prostatecancer community. Dr. Feng led foundational research on advanced prostate cancer as part of the West Coast Dream Team Help us fund more life-saving research: tinyurl.com/ycyuhhyv

Extremely grateful to ASCO Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation for this honor!! Despite 10 prior grant rejections (that I took very personally), I was encouraged to keep submitting by mentor extraordinaire Sumanta K. Pal, MD, FASCO, who truly finds more joy in his mentees' success than his own. Also featuring...

What’s become very clear with multiple sources of high level evidence: What you do at radical cystectomy is more important than the tools you use. Stick with the principles (wide excision, thorough PLND) and provide a functional reconstruction to provide the best QOL).

Some of the incredible research being done by our trainees across every subspecialty UCSFUrology on our day-long Emil A Tanagho Visiting Professor event and graduation. Lindsay Hampson

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm joining the Human Biology Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center! I'm recruiting postdocs, ResTechs, and grad students. Apply if interested! 🔗 research.fredhutch.org/haolong-li/en.… #CRISPR #FunctionalGenomics #Research #JoinOurTeam

Alternative Promoters need love too! Our study in Nature Cell Biology led by UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr postdoc Meng Zhang shows APs become increasingly important as prostate cells evolve into metastatic tumors. Thanks to PCF Science and my colleagues Christopher Maher and Felix Feng.

Thrilled to match Zac Kornberg as our next SUO fellow!!! UCSFUrology 🤝 Stanford Urology

HER2+ tumors emerging as a critical subset of mUC. But not all HER2 exp is driven by ERBB2 copy # gain The Oncologist pub from Xiaolin Zhu UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Uromigos UroToday.com 👇 HER2 overexpression in UC with GATA3 and PPARG copy number gains academic.oup.com/oncolo/article…

Burnout & moral injury in medicine have affected so many health care workers. As a mid-career physician, here’s what I’ve learned to combat it - I hope others find it to be helpful. In Search of Joy and Meaning in Modern Medicine JCO Oncology Practice ascopubs.org/doi/pdf/10.120…

UCSF Urology is recruiting! Urologic Oncology, Pediatric Urology & General Urology faculty positions. See details & apply online at link below Urologic Oncologist aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05157 Pediatric Urologist aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05151 General Urologist aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05155

ARNEO: A Randomized Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Degarelix with or Without Apalutamide Prior to Radical Prostatectomy for High-risk Prostate Cancer by Gaëtan Devos et al Full article: europeanurology.com/article/S0302-… #UroSoMe #MedTwitter #PCa #ProstateCancer

Congrats to our June IMPACT Award winner, Dr. Annika Herlemann "Long-term PCa-specific Mortality After Prostatectomy, Brachytherapy, External Beam Radiation Therapy, Hormonal Therapy, or Monitoring for Localized PCa" Full article: buff.ly/3QTtJet Annika Herlemann

Peace Orji, MD, receives the ZSFG Krevans Award for her "excellence in patient care, as exemplified by clinical competence, professional conduct, concern for patients & interaction with all levels of staff, including peers." Congratulations✨ Peace Orji urology.ucsf.edu/news/all/20240…

What a week with AACR MBCO 2024 class led by Ross Levine Christine Lovly, MD, PhD and Jean Tang! High yield presentations, great networking, and essential grant writing and lab sessions. And the faculty are an inspiration 🤩 Julie Schwarz Elsa Anagnostou

From SWOG Cancer Research Network S1314: Bladder cancer tumors w changes in any of 3 DNA damage-repair genes were >5X as likely to be cleared by neoadj cisplatin-based chemo. Could help ID patients who could trade bladder removal for surveillance. Results in European Urology. swog.org/news-events/ne…

I’m excited to announce I will be joining UAB Urology to Chair an amazing Dept of Urology. UAB Heersink School of Medicine has captured my imagination! Top people dedicated to inclusive excellence & discovery. Very grateful for the opportunity. Thx UCSFUrology for being a great home for 23 yrs!

Jonathan Chou presents elegant, BCAN YIA funded project on developing a novel CAR-T therapy targeting Nectin-4 and increasing Nectin-4 expression (and sensitivity) with PPARg agonist rosiglitazone. #BCAN #TT24 UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr

Brief Report: Cabozantinib Plus Nivolumab in Patients with Non–Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Updated Results from a Phase 2 Trial by Kelly N. Fitzgerald, Chung-Han Lee et al Full article: europeanurology.com/article/S0302-… #UroSoMe #MedTwitter #RenalCellCarcinoma #BriefReport #EurUrol

🔥 Awaited SunRISe-1 results #ESMO2024 🥨 84% CR 🥨 9% grade >3 TRAE 🥨 favorable over combination with Cetrelimab or Cetrelimab alone

Dr Apolo Andrea Apolo, M.D. our study chair and bladder cadre leader was center stage to present A031501/AMBASSADOR +DFS and our publication in NEJM This Truly takes a Village! ESMO - Eur. Oncology Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology NCICancerTrials Merck SWOG Cancer Research Network ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group #ESMO24 OncoAlert