Sharon Brangman, MD: Does your loved one need a feeding tube?
Frederick Sengstacke, MD: Does losing weight help overweight women conceive?
Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Finding work/life balance for runners’ burnout
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’
Upstate urologist JC Trussell, MD, talks about testosterone, or ‘low T’ – what it is, how it affects the body and treatments that are available today. For more information: Adult Urology Clinic at Upstate – call 315 464-1800.
Weight loss surgeon Howard Simon, MD, gives us an update on Upstate’s bariatric surgery program, and looks closely at how effective a popular weight loss procedure really is. Simon is the director of The Central New York Bariatric Surgery Center (CNYBSC). who looks closely at how effective a popular weight loss procedure really is.
Upstate surgeons David Halleran and Jiri Bem are joined by Linda Veit, special projects manager at the Upstate Cancer Center, to talk about colorectal cancer and the importance of the colonoscopy as a screening tool. The also discuss a study they are involved in to determine what biomarkers might be used to predict/detect colon cancer — perhaps in lieu of a colonoscopy in the future. For more information, or to participate in the study, call 315-464-1852.
Onondaga County Cancer Services Program on Facebook
Read the study: Study of Biomarkers for Early Detection of Colorectal Adenocarcinoma in Adults Undergoing Colonoscopy
Among cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer (cancer of the colon or rectum) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Upstate surgeons David Halleran and Jiri Bem, are joined by Jenny Dickinson from the Onondaga County Health Department, to discuss the Onondaga County Cancer Services Program partnership, which provides free cancer screenings to the uninsured and underinsured. For more information, call 435-3653.
Onondaga County Cancer Services Program on Facebook
Dr. Dmitriy Nikolavsky, new to Upstate Medical University, talks about his unique specialty – male and female reconstructive urology, including diagnosis and treatment options. Read more about the Department of Urology at Upstate Medical University.
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.
