title: Controversies in urologic oncology.
abstract: The persistent controversies that characterize urologic oncology reflect the significant advances that have been made in our understanding of genitourinary malignancy and the objective posture that has been taken both by those active in this area and by those whose interests are more indirect. Ultimately, the beneficiaries of these controversies are the patients and their physicians. As continued problems are recognized and investigations are designed to explore them, controversy and skepticism become a healthy concomitant so that true knowledge and understanding can be achieved and such issues ultimately resolved.
mesh_terms: D002278:Carcinoma in Situ; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms