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Grant awarded for research into complications associated with prostate surgery
September 3, 2014
Dr.
Rodney Breau
has received a 2014 Movember Discovery Grant for $200,000 from
Prostate Cancer Canada
to further his research on the long-term effects of having a prostate surgically removed. Dr Breau and his team will use the funding to study how regular feedback to surgeons, through a surgery report card, could change surgical performance. Surgeons who perform radical prostatectomy will receive feedback every three months on their patient outcomes compared to the outcomes of patients treated by other surgeons. The hope is that regular feedback to surgeons will reduce long-term urinary and sexual side effects that some patients experience after having their prostate removed.
See release from Prostate Cancer Canada
.
About the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) is the research arm of The Ottawa Hospital and is an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa, closely associated with the university’s Faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences. OHRI includes more than 1,700 scientists, clinical investigators, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff conducting research to improve the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease.
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