Urology Clinical Trials

Choosing to participate in a clinical trial is an important personal decision.  Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective.  Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research.  All clinical trials have guidelines about who can participate.  Researchers use protocols with defined criteria to identify appropriate participants and maintain safety standards.  For commonly asked questions about clinical trials, see www.clinicaltrials.gov.  

The Division of Urology currently has clinical trials available to qualifiying patients.

Current Clinical Trials

Delayed intervention and surveillance for small renal masses.  (DISSRM Trial)

An efficacy and safety study of the effect of Cialis usage in the immediate postoperative period of the preservation of erectile function in men undergoing bilateral nerve sparing radical prostatectomy.

The safety and effectiveness of Ablatherm Integrated Imaging as compared to Cryotherapy for treatment of localized, low risk prostate cancer. (HIFU)  Click here to see story about HIFU trial on WRAL.

A prospective, observational study on the perioperative outcome of open surgical cystectomy versus robotic cystectomy.

International Robot-assisted Cystectomy Consortium (IRCC)

Fore more information on the above studies please contact Clinical Research Manager Sachin Vyas, MS, PhD at 919-966-9253.