March 2021

UROLOGY

BLACK MEN AND PROSTATE CANCER WITH EDWARD SCHAEFFER, MD, PHD

Featuring: Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD

Episode Summary

Black men are more likely to get prostate cancer and more than twice as likely to die from the disease than other men. Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD, has developed a research team to better understand this problem. In this episode of the Breakthroughs podcast, Dr. Schaeffer talks about his latest discoveries, which are paving the way to precision medicine for aggressive prostate cancer.

​Dr. Schaeffer is the chair of the Department of Urology at Northwestern Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine urologist with a specialized practice in prostate cancer.

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This podcast was originally released via the Feinberg School of Medicine News Center in March 2021
Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD, ​chair and the Edmund Andrews Professor of Urology at Northwestern Medicine.

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