Today, there are more options for the treatment of bladder cancer than ever before. Urologic oncologists in the Department of Urology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia are established experts in both robotic and laparoscopic techniques for the treatment of urologic tumors, specifically bladder, kidney, prostate, and testicular cancer.

In kidney transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is now the standard of care for living donors, a technique not widely available until the late 1990s.