Mayo Clinic Study of Kidney Surgery and Chronic Kidney Disease

Interrupting the blood flow for more than 20 to 25 minutes during kidney cancer surgery leads to a greater risk for patients developing chronic kidney disease

Mayo Clinic researchers help to shine new light on bladder cancer tumors

Mayo Clinic researchers help to shine new light on bladder cancer tumors.

Choline C-11: Pulling back the curtain on prostate cancer

Mayo Clinic has integrated production, imaging and pathology facilities to provide the benefit of Choline C 11 PET imaging to prostate cancer patients.

Biopsy-based predictors of prostate cancer mortality: The Mayo Model

Matthew K. Tollefson, M.D., provides patients and clinicians with a novel way to predict which cases of prostate cancer, the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in American men, will be aggressive and which ones can be safely monitored with watchful waiting.

Diastolic Heart Failure Treatment Study

A commonly used erectile dysfunction drug, sildenafil, doesn't help patients who have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, a condition in which the heart's lower chambers are stiff and cannot relax and fill fully between beats.