September 25, 2023

At the Bedside: New focal therapies at UTHealth Houston make prostate cancer treatment easier on patients

One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime and 11 years ago, Morton McPhail, now 73, became one of them. Fortunately, time was on his side. The prostate gland, found only in men, produces seminal…


May 1, 2023

SurgeON Newsletter – May 2023

Read the May 2023 Issue of SurgeON… Inside you will find: Administrative Professionals Day Canfield Performs First NanoKnife Prostate Ablation Education Surgeons Get Educated at the APDS/ASE Meeting A Recipe for a Continuous Quality Improvement Program in Surgical Residency Kao…


April 25, 2023

Canfield Performs First NanoKnife Prostate Ablation

Steven Canfield, MD, Division Director of Urology in the Department of Surgery, recently became the first surgeon in Houston to perform a NanoKnife prostate ablation. This minimally invasive procedure uses an electrical pulse process to destroy tumors without damaging any…