Nature Clinical Practice Urology

• When and How to Use Informatics Tools in Caring for Urologic Michael Kattan assesses the utility of several Decision analysis nomograms for management of clinically localized prostate cancer.
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, February 01, 2005
• Mechanisms of Disease: Polymorphisms of Androgen Regulatory The authors briefly describe several androgen-related polymorphisms implicated in the development and progression of prostate cancer.
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, February 01, 2005
• Is Coronal CT Imaging a More Accurate Method of Measuring the In this commentary on an article from the Journal of Urology by Nadler and colleagues, the use of coronal images is held to be necessary only in "complex and difficult cases."
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, February 01, 2005
• Can Prostate Cancer Be Prevented? Various dietary, lifestyle, and genetic factors have been associated with the risk of prostate cancer. With enough study of these factors will it be possible to prevent the disease?
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, January 01, 2005
• Should the Uterus and Ovaries Be Removed, and the Vagina Women with muscle-invasive bladder cancer face removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and part of the vagina. Will preservation of the gynecologic organs soon be feasible in some cases?
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, January 01, 2005
• Should Men With Serum PSA Levels of 4.0 ng/mL or Less Undergo a Recent reassessment of the utility of PSA levels in diagnosing prostate cancer has changed the way many urologists advise their patients. But PSA, however imperfect, is still the best marker we have.
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, November 01, 2004
• Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis What do we know about chronic prostatitis? Very little. In fact, it may not even be a disease of the prostate. It is time for urologists to re-examine old dogma.
  Nature Clinical Practice Urology, November 01, 2004