Furkan Dursun, MD
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About Me
About Furkan Dursun, MD
Dr. Furkan Dursun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. He is also the Assistant Program Director for the Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship program. Dr. Dursun received his residency training at Gulhane Military Medical Academy in Istanbul, Turkey, followed by an intensive Society of Urologic Oncology-approved fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the University of Texas Health, San Antonio.
Dr. Dursun's clinical practice is focused on genitourinary cancers, with a special interest in laparoscopic and robotic urologic oncology, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, and benign prostate enlargement. He is especially interested about the use of image-guided interventions to diagnose and treat prostate cancer.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Dursun is an active member of several prestigious urology organizations, including the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), the American Urological Association (AUA), and the European Association of Urology (EAU). He has authored numerous peer-reviewed academic journal publications and delivered many urologic presentations at national and international conferences.
Gender
- Male
Languages Spoken
- Turkish
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Credentials
Credentials
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Urology at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Assistant Program Director, Urologic Oncology Fellowship Program
Education
- Medical School: Gulhane Military Medical Academy
- Residency: Gulhane Military Medical Academy
- Fellowship: University of Texas Health San Antonio
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Research & Publications
Research & Publications
Effects of yoga in men with prostate cancer on quality of life and immune response: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Dharam Kaushik, Pankil K Shah, Neelam Mukherjee, Niannian Ji, Furkan Dursun, Addanki P Kumar, Ian M Thompson Jr, Ahmed M Mansour 3 4 , Richapriya Jha, Xiaoyu Yang, Hanzhang Wang, Nydia Darby, J Ri
"Immune-Cell Pawns" Plot Promotion and Corner Kidney Cancer: CheckMate 214
Furkan Dursun, Chethan Ramamurthy, Dharam Kaushik
Robot-assisted retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: a systematic review of perioperative outcomes
Harshit Garg, Ahmed M Mansour, Sarah P Psutka, Simon P Kim, James Porter, Christine S Gaspard, Furkan Dursun, Deepak K Pruthi, Hanzhang Wang, Dharam Kaushik
Perioperative, postoperative and anatomical outcomes of robotic sacrocolpopexy
Gokhan Sami Kilic, Toy Lee, Kelsey Lewis, Cem Demirkiran, Furkan Dursun, Bekir Serdar Unlu
The Latinx Disparity in Surgery for Kidney Cancer: Data from The South Texas Region
Furkan Dursun, Rahul S Patel, Dawn Hui, Hanzhang Wang, Ahmed Mansour, Deepak Pruthi, David G Alonso, Lalithapriya Jayakumar, Ronald Rodriguez, Robert S Svatek, Michael A Liss, Dharam Kaushik
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Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials
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