Our Services

The Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology is a multidisciplinary and multispecialty care and treatment center, as well as a cutting-edge research facility. Our focus is to provide expert, compassionate, and state-of-the-art care, as well as to offer patients options that include experimental treatments. We treat all genitourinary malignancies, including cancers of the prostate, testes, bladder and kidney.

Our collaborative clinical approach is based on the foundation of multidisciplinary teams that include medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and urologists. The multidisciplinary teams work together in a cooperative manner to discuss and recommend specific treatments for each individual patient, with a goal toward providing the best possible advice for each patient. Our providers offer a tailored treatment plan based on the latest surgical, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment approaches, including access to NCI clinical trials.

We recognize that a patient may need other forms of support in addition to his or her clinical care while dealing with his or her disease. We focus on compassionate care throughout the disease process, including long-term follow-up and palliative care for our patients with advanced cancers. Further, we assist the patient in dealing with his or her disease by offering the following services:

• licensed social workers
• specialized nursing care
• nutrition counseling
• patient-education resources
• support groups
• pastoral care

Division of Urologic Surgery

The Division of Urologic Surgery provides evaluation and surgical management of patients with genitourinary cancers, including those of the prostate, testes, bladder and kidney at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Second opinions are provided if requested by a physician.

Since Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women's are located across the street from one another, our oncology inpatients are followed pre- and postoperatively by both medical oncologists and surgeons alike, who continually update one another, all the while striving for the best possible patient care.

Prostate Center

The Prostate Cancer Radiation Oncology Service is part of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center. Our team of experts has pioneered unique treatment approaches and new methods for assessing cancer control that have resulted in better cure rates with fewer side effects for men with prostate cancer.

The prostate cancer management team, which serves approximately 750 patients per year, consists of Radiation Oncologists, Medical Oncologists, Urological Surgeon, Physicists, Radiologists, Nurse Specialists, Social Workers and Dietitians. Working closely together, we provide expert diagnostic services and leading-edge, innovative treatment options for patients with newly-diagnosed or recurrent prostate cancer.

Services offered by the Prostate Cancer Radiation Oncology Service include:

• Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Therapy
• MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy (seed therapy)
• Dose-Escalated Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, delivered with a unique prostate localization and immobilization device
• Innovative treatment combinations, including hormone therapy and chemotherapy combined with radiation therapy, done in the setting of rigorously-controlled clinical trials.