Dr. David Penson, MD

• Urology

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• Yale University

  Fellowship Hospital, 1999

• Ucla Health System

  Residency Hospital, 1997

• Ucla Mc

  Internship Hospital, 1992

• Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 1991

• University Of Pennsylvania

  Undergraduate School, 1987

• Comparison of Patient-reported Outcomes After External Beam Radiation Therapy and Combined External Beam With Low-dose-rate Brachytherapy Boost in Men With Localized Prostate Cancer, 2018-06-01

• Racial Variation in the Quality of Surgical Care for Bladder Cancer, 2013-12-11

• The Comparative Oncologic Effectiveness of Available Management Strategies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer, 2016-04-28

• Surgeons' Perspective of Decision Making in Recurrent Diverticulitis: A Qualitative Analysis, 2022-05-04

• Patient expectations of benefit from systemic treatments for metastatic prostate cancer, 2019-12-16

• A comparison of general, genitourinary, bowel, and sexual quality of life among long term survivors of prostate, bladder, colorectal, and lung cancer, 2020-07-29

• Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Related to Laryngopharyngeal Reflux: A Systematic Review of Instrument Development and Validation, 2016-08-23

• COVID-19 and financial toxicity in patients with renal cell carcinoma, 2020-10-22

• Racial Variation in the Quality of Surgical Care for Prostate Cancer, 2012-08-16

• Effect of Prostate Cancer Severity on Functional Outcomes After Localized Treatment: Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Surgery and Radiation Study Results, 2018-02-28

• National Variation in Elective Colon Resection for Diverticular Disease, 2022-02-01

• EFFECT OF INTENSIVE GLYCEMIC THERAPY ON ERECTILE FUNCTION IN MEN WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES IN THE DIABETES CONTROL AND COMPLICATIONS TRIAL/EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIABETES INTERVENTIONS AND COMPLICATIONS STUDY, 2011-03-21

• Real-world outcomes of sipuleucel-T treatment in PROCEED, a prospective registry of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, 2019-09-04

• Association between pelvic nodal radiotherapy and patient-reported functional outcomes through 5 years among men undergoing external-beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer: an assessment of the CEASAR cohort, 2021-06-19

• Information Seeking and Satisfaction with Information Sources Among Spouses of Men with Newly Diagnosed Local-Stage Prostate Cancer, 2017-12-14

• Obesity, body composition, and prostate cancer, 2012-01-18

• Predicting the Probability of 90-day Survival in Elderly Bladder Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Cystectomy, 2011-07-23

• Immediate Effects of the Initial FDA Notification on the Use of Surgical Mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery in Medicare Beneficiaries, 2012-09-21

• Racial Variation in Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer: Results from the CEASAR Study, 2016-11-03

• Development and Internal Validation of a Web-based Tool to Predict Sexual, Urinary, and Bowel Function Longitudinally After Radiation Therapy, Surgery, or Observation, 2020-02-22

• Racial variation in the pattern and quality of care for prostate cancer in the USA: mind the gap, 2010-06-14

• Using a population-based observational cohort study to address difficult comparative effectiveness research questions: the CEASAR study, 2016-06-18

• Decision-making processes among men with low-risk prostate cancer: A survey study, 2017-07-13

• Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Dysphagia: A Systematic Review of Instrument Development and Validation, 2017-05-01

• Correction: Enzalutamide versus bicalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a prespecified subgroup analysis of the STRIVE trial, 2021-11-30

• Prediction of Long-Term Other-Cause Mortality in Men with Early-Stage Prostate Cancer: Results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study, 2014-09-26

• Prostate Cancer Mortality and Metastasis under Different Biopsy Frequencies in North American Active Surveillance Cohorts, 2019-10-22

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine use, Patient Reported Outcomes, and Treatment Satisfaction among Men with Localized Prostate Cancer, 2012-09-29

• Incidence and Predictors of Understaging in Patients with Clinical T1 Urothelial Carcinoma Undergoing Radical Cystectomy, 2014-04-03

• Association between body mass index and localized prostate cancer management and disease-specific quality of life, 2022-11-02

• Patient Reported Outcomes Measures in Colon and Rectal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Quality Assessment, 2021-03-19

• Number-needed-to-treat analysis of clinical progression in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in the STRIVE and TERRAIN trials, 2018-09-06

• Survival of African-American and Caucasian men after sipuleucel-T immunotherapy: outcomes from the PROCEED registry, 2020-02-28

• Potential underestimation of cerebrovascular events in the Provenge Registry for the Observation, Collection, and Evaluation of Experience Data - A Response, 2020-03-10

• Successful external validation of a model to predict other cause mortality in localized prostate cancer, 2016-02-09

• Checklist to operationalize measurement characteristics of patient-reported outcome measures, 2016-08-02

• Comparative Analysis of Biopsy Upgrading in Four Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Cohorts, 2017-11-28

• Effect of Injection Augmentation on Need for Framework Surgery in Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis, 2015-07-07

• The relationship between perioperative blood transfusion and overall mortality in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer, 2011-09-09

• Salvage Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: A Single Institution, Five-Year Experience, 2012-09-20

• Association between radiation therapy, surgery, or observation for localized prostate cancer and patient-reported outcomes after 3 years, 2017-03-21

• Modeling economic and epidemiological impact of voluntary medical male circumcision among men who have sex with men in Beijing, China, 2019-03-19

• Increasing use of observation among men at low risk for prostate cancer mortality, 2014-09-06

• Impact of Adherence to Quality Measures for Localized Prostate Cancer on Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, and Treatment-Related Complications, 2016-04-28

• Burden among partner caregivers of patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer within 1 year after diagnosis: an economic perspective, 2013-08-17

• Variation in the intensity of hematuria evaluation: a target for primary care quality improvement, 2014-01-28

• The prostate cancer conundrum revisited: Treatment changes and prostate cancer mortality declines, 2012-05-17

• Enzalutamide versus bicalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a prespecified subgroup analysis of the STRIVE trial, 2021-10-07

• Correction to: Number-needed-to-treat analysis of clinical progression in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in the STRIVE and TERRAIN trials, 2018-10-01

• The Evolution of Self-Reported Urinary and Sexual Dysfunction over the Last Two Decades: Implications for Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2014-08-28

• Oxidative Stress Measured by Urine F2-Isoprostane Level Is Associated With Prostate Cancer, 2011-04-15

• Factors associated with satisfaction with prostate cancer care: results from Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor (CaPSURE), 2012-08-29

• Variation in the diagnostic evaluation among persons with hematuria: influence of gender, race, and risk factors for bladder cancer, 2017-06-24

• Association between treatment for localized prostate cancer and mental health outcomes, 2022-03-03

• Single cell analysis of cribriform prostate cancer reveals cell intrinsic and tumor microenvironmental pathways of aggressive disease, 2022-10-13

• A randomized trial of a specialist palliative care intervention for patients undergoing surgery for cancer: rationale and design of the Surgery for Cancer with Option of Palliative Care Expert (SCOPE) Trial, 2019-12-11

• Epidemiology of Vocal Fold Paralyses After Total Thyroidectomy for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Medicare Population, 2014-01-30

• Diabetes mellitus and health-related quality of life in prostate cancer: 5-year results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study, 2010-11-11

• Fibromyxoid Nephrogenic Adenoma in the Ureter, 2018-07-01

• Interpretation of domain scores on the expanded prostate cancer index composite: How does the domain score translate into functional outcomes?, 2019-06-19

• Optimization of Initial Prostate Biopsy in Clinical Practice: Sampling, Labeling, and Specimen Processing, 2013-02-26

• Selecting Active Surveillance: Decision-Making Factors for Men with a Low-Risk Prostate Cancer, 2019-10-21

• Assessment of Patient Experience with Unilateral Vocal Fold Immobility: A Preliminary Study, 2014-04-13

• What if I don't treat my PSA-detected prostate cancer? Answers from three natural history models, 2011-01-20

• The Impact of Health Literacy on Surgical Outcomes Following Radical Cystectomy, 2016-09-23