Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. One in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society.

Join us for a discussion to learn more about prostate cancer including causes, symptoms, risk factors and ways to maintain a healthy prostate during the Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Series in partnership with the 96th Street Library.

Douglas Scherr, M.D., is a Professor of Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Scherr’s clinical focus is in the treatment of urologic malignancies, in particular, the treatment of prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer and testicular cancers, as well as genitourinary and retroperitoneal sarcomas. Dr. Scherr was the first physician at WCM to perform a robotic prostatectomy, and he has since performed hundreds of these procedures and travels nationally and internationally teaching the procedure to many urologic surgeons. Dr. Scherr has expanded his robotic practice in Manhattan to now include robotic-assisted removal of bladders with total bladder reconstructions. Dr. Scherr has published extensively in the areas of bladder and prostate cancer as well a wide variety of other urologic malignancies.