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Causes on Facebook Bulletin: Big Stone County Cancer Support Group...: "Big Stone County Cancer Support Group to feature guest speaker
Posted by Bette Johnson at 9:57am Dr. Badrinath R Konety, MD, MBA will be a guest speaker at a regular meeting of the BSCCSG in Clinton at 7:00 pm on Monday, March 8th. The meeting will be held at the United Methodist Church.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend this meeting. Dr Konety will give us an update on prostate and bladder cancer. This is part of our commitment to bring speakers to our area, and keep the public informed of the latest treatment options available for different types of cancer.
Dr Kronety completed medical school and his internships at MS Ramaiah Medical College and Teaching Hospitals in Bangalore, India. He did a general surgery residency at the University of Pittsburg in 1994 and then went on to do a Urology residency at the same university. He was Chief Clinical Fellow in Urology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New Your from July 2000 to July 2001. He is currently chair of the Department of urology at the University of Minnesota, and Director of the Center for Prostate Cancer. He specializes in urologic oncology with a focus on prostate & bladder cancers. His research interests include
* Diagnosis and management of urology cancers in the elderly
* Prostate cancer screening in the elderly
*Clinical trials of gene therapy
*Development of synthetic nervr grafts to restore function after prostate
surgery.
*Quality of life and outcomes research in bladder and prostate cancers.
*Research and development of bladder cancer biomarkers.
*Role of vitamin D in prostate cancer."