Genitourinary Cancer Clinic

At Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, our comprehensive and collaborative clinic offers the highest level of care for patients diagnosed with prostate, bladder and kidney cancers.

What is the multidisciplinary Genitourinary Cancer Clinic?

Our clinic pulls together a team of highly trained specialists across these specialties:

• Medical oncology
• Radiation oncology
• Urologic oncology
• Cancer navigation

Your visits to the clinic will be organized, so you’ll see all the specialists you need to see during one visit. Expect to receive a coordinated treatment plan the same day of your visit – providing peace of mind, convenience and time-savings from diagnosis to treatment to recovery. Our experts focus solely on prostate, bladder and renal cancer, ensuring you receive the most specialized care possible.

Your oncology team will also work with specialists in radiology, pathology, genetics and clinical research to continually evaluate your treatment plan, progress and prognosis. Since we have access to leading clinical trials, best-in-class treatments and some of the most advanced technologies, our team takes the most precise approach to every step of your care.

Services at the multidisciplinary Genitourinary Cancer Clinic

Common types of diagnostic tools and treatments we use include:

• Individualized precision medicine
• Robotic prostatectomy
• Advanced diagnostic imaging
• Radiation therapy: Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)/CyberKnife®, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and brachytherapy
• Hormonal therapy: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and novel hormonal medications
• Chemotherapy
• Immunotherapy

We also use focal therapy for prostate cancer, which targets the identified cancer cells in your prostate without harming normal cells. Focal therapy treats the entire prostate with minimal side effects and without affecting urination or sexual function. It can be used as an alternative to radiation or surgery for some cases of prostate cancer.

Different types of focal therapy include:

• High-intensity focused ultrasound
• Irreversible electroporation
• Cryosurgery

Lutetium-177 PSMA therapy is a new radiation treatment for advanced metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. It’s a type of radiation that specifically targets a molecule called prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) that’s found on the surface of prostate cancer cells.

Our Aurora Hereditary Cancer Prevention and Management Center partners with us to assess for individuals and families with complex hereditary conditions that are related to genitourinary cancers.

Other resources for genitourinary cancers

In addition to providing high quality medical care, we’re committed to caring for the whole you and providing the resources you and your loved ones need to manage a cancer diagnosis. At Aurora Health Care, we offer:

• Access to cancer clinical trials
• Cancer nurse navigators

Genitourinary Cancer Clinic care providers

Our dedicated cancer nurse navigators work with the rest of the team to assign the specialists you’ll need for your individualized treatment plan.

Dr. Matthew Johnson – urology
Dr. Peter Leonovicz – urology
Dr. Mark Waples – urology
Dr. Kelsey Corrigan – radiation oncology
Dr. Jeffrey Kittel – radiation oncology
Dr. Antony Ruggeri – medical oncology
Dr. Neil Biswas – medical oncology
James Kaplan – cancer nurse navigator
Kristen Fell – cancer nurse navigator

Contacting the multidisciplinary Genitourinary Cancer Clinic

For answers to your questions or to learn if our multidisciplinary Genitourinary Cancer Clinic may be right for you, call 414-649-1280.