In the News Archive

A new recommendation issued today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against routine PSA testing for healthy men age 50 and older goes too far, says a prostate cancer expert at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

 

After a surprising diagnosis, a Californian turns to Barnes-Jewish Hospital for care made possible by charitable gifts

While prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer, the most common way of screening for the disease is under question from many in the medical community.

Adam Kibel, MD, has been named the Holekamp Family Chair in Urology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine are one of only 14 hospitals and medical institutions in the country listed among America’s elite medical centers in U.S.News & World Report’s List of “America’s Best Hospitals.”

 

When it comes to improving care for patients facing kidney, prostate or testicular cancer, Washington University and Siteman Cancer Center urologic surgeon R. Sherburne Figenshau, MD, thinks small — smaller incisions, smaller cuts and smaller amounts of time inside the body.

Surgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital hit a milestone in January with their 1,000^th robotic surgery case using the da Vinci surgical system.

Urologist Sam Bhayani, MD, is the first to interactively broadcast his surgery nationally, allowing physicians in other parts of the country to learn his surgical techniques.