Dr James Symons
Position:
- Urology Registrar/Research Fellow, Cancer, Garvan Institute
- Affiliate, Royal Australian College of Surgeons
- Affiliate, Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand
- Affiliate, American Urological Association
- Affiliate, St Vincent's Prostate Cancer Centre
- Affiliate, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
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Biography:
Dr Symons is currently undertaking a urological research fellowship at the Garvan Institute, in conjunction with a Master of Surgery at Sydney University. Prior to this he had several years of clinical training with RACS as a General Surgery registrar, and will resume clinical training in Urology in 2011.
The current focus of the work at the St Vincent's Prostate Cancer Centre & Garvan Institute is clinical research. Their major project, which should begin to come to fruition this year, is a large comparison of quality of life outcomes for the different contemporary treatment modalities for prostate cancer. Other projects include an assessment of surgical techniques to augment post-prostatectomy continence rates and a correlation of prostate cancer biomarkers with clinicopathological outcomes.
Current areas of collaboration: Cancer Council NSW.
localized therapies, marker testing, quality of life, surveillance, survivorship, systemic therapies.
