Clinical Services

The Uro-Oncology Clinic (UNOC) is located on the Sixth floor of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and offers a broad range of urological services to the genitourinary oncology patient, including erectile dysfunction, stoma care and cancer prevention. We have a full range of patient educations materials and media. Patients are offered the opportunity to participate in one of many clinical trials in a designated Clinical Trials clinic every Tuesday afternoon from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Mondays and Fridays are reserved for patient consultations, return visits and minor procedures including cystoscopies, transrectal ultrasound biopsies, minor urodynamics, and intravesical therapies. Many of the minor patient problems can be addressed in the oncology nursing clinic on Wednesdays. We are excited about two new recently opened clinics: a Laparoscopic Oncology Clinic on alternating Friday afternoons and a Brachytherapy Clinic every Tuesday afternoon. Our goal is to offer the best contemporary cancer care to patients and provide a conduit for translational research to make it from the research laboratory to the patient.

Since the first laparoscopic nephrectomy in Arkansas performed here in 2000, we have been at the forefront of minimally invasive treatment of urological diseases using cutting edge technologies. The advantages of laparoscopy over conventional open surgery include smaller incisions, decreased postoperative pain and decreased hospital stay with faster recovery. We offer laparoscopic treatment for many benign and malignant kidney conditions including nephrectomy (removal of the entire kidney), partial nephrectomy (removal of part of the kidney). We also perform laparoscopic cryosurgery (freezing of kidney tumor). Other laparoscopic surgeries that are performed here include adrenalectomy, pyeloplasty and radical prostatectomy.