Patrick Basile, MD: Upstate medical graduate performs high profile double arm transplant
Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Who, What, Where, When, How, or… what I learned on my vacation to China
Richard Cantor, MD: PEDS to Parents – How to keep kids safe in summer
Harold Smulyan, MD: What killed Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum?
Deirdre Neilen, PhD: The Healing Muse – ‘Snow’ and ‘Things My Daughter Lost in Hospitals’
Rheumatologist 
Jianghong Yu and registered nurse Arlene Stefanko share new healthcare options available for people with cancer and rheumatology – including osteo and rheumatoid arthritis, and auto immune diseases like Lupus – in the Cortland area.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 607-749-2640.
Dr. Gennady Bratslavsky, director of Upstate’s Prostate Cancer Program, talks about a new drug to treat hormone-resistant prostate cancer.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call 315-464-1500
Dr. Jeffrey Bogart discusses a new study at Upstate for the treatment of prostate cancer, a high energy radiation therapy called the SpaceOAR™ System. If you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, contact Dena Martin at 315-464-5262 or martind@upstate.edu to see if this study may be right for you.
New Clinical Trial at Upstate: Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer.
The Prostate Cancer Program at Upstate University Hospital.
Dr. Robert Corona, who recently returned to Upstate after working at Welch Allyn for 16 years, talks about the future of cancer diagnostics. Microscopes as we know them will be embedded into sophisticated computer systems that will aid pathologists in making accurate diagnoses.
Pediatric neurosurgeon Zulma Tovar-Spinoza reveals a new treatment option for patients with deep, treatment-resistant brain tumors called magnetic resonance image-guided laser ablation. This minimally-invasive technique can be used in some cases instead of a major open brain surgery.
Read More: New treatment option for patients with deep, treatment-resistant brain tumors
Colorectal surgeon David Halleran talks about the signs and symptoms and treatment options for colorectal cancer as March is colorectal cancer awareness month.
Read more about colorectal cancer from the CDC.
Registered nurse Natalie LeFebvre, after surviving a brain tumor, started the ‘Healing Ways’ support group as a way to heal, and it has renewed her enthusiasm for life.
Read Natalie’s story in the Post-Standard
For more information about the Healing Ways support group for cancer patients and their families/caregivers, call (315) 415-5305
Oncologist Ajeet Gajra talks about lung cancer, the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options.
Read more about the new Upstate Cancer Center, proposed opening in the Fall of 2013.
Dr. Dilip Kittur talks about how liver cancer usually is a secondary cancer, and how it is usually treated…..with surgery and/or a method that blocks the tumor’s blood supply with spheres containing chemotherapy. There is also a radiofrequency ablation treatment that is available, and within the next couple years he hopes to offer a treatment that makes use of radioactive isotopes.
Upstate urologist Rakesh Khanna discusses prostate cancer screening guidelines, risks factors and treatment options.
The American Cancer Society’s Jason Warchal shares a new collaborative program that provides free cancer screenings for the uninsured or under insured titled “Get Health Connected”.
The American Cancer Society’s Martha Ryan RN, director of health outreach initiatives, tells us how Central New Yorkers can participate in a new national cancer prevention study to help zero in on cancer causes and help reduce cancer deaths.
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