Piyush K. Agarwal
Investigator
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Agarwal is a tenure-track investigator and the Head of the Bladder Cancer Section in the Urologic Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He received his M.D. from the Cornell (Weill) University School of Medicine in New York, New York. He then completed his urology residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He then went on to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where he completed a fellowship in urologic oncology. Before coming to the NIH, Dr. Agarwal was a faculty member at the Henry Ford Hospital Vattikuti Urology Institute where he served as the Director of Robotic Bladder Surgery. Dr. Agarwal is a Board Certified and fellowship trained Urologic Oncologic Surgeon. Dr. Agarwal specializes in multidisciplinary management of bladder cancer and complex surgical techniques including robotic cystectomy and continent urinary diversions. He is also an expert in other urologic cancers including prostate, testicular, and penile carcinoma. His clinical and laboratory research focus on all aspects of bladder cancer, specifically, BCG-refractory disease and molecular targeted therapy
Research Interest
rothelial cancer, bladder cancer, immunotherapy, open and robotic surgery, targeted therapy, intravesical therapy
Publications
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Apolo AB, Kim JW, Bochner BH, Steinberg SM, Bajorin DF, Kelly WK, Agarwal PK, Koppie TM, Kaag MG, Quinn DI, Vogelzang NJ. Examining the management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer by medical oncologists in the United States. InUrologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations 2014 Jul 31 (Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 637-644). Elsevier.
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Ahmed K, Khan SA, Hayn MH, Agarwal PK, Badani KK, Balbay MD, Castle EP, Dasgupta P, Ghavamian R, Guru KA, Hemal AK. Analysis of intracorporeal compared with extracorporeal urinary diversion after robot-assisted radical cystectomy: results from the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium. European urology. 2014 Feb 28;65(2):340-7.
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Weintraub MD, Li QQ, Agarwal PK. Advances in intravesical therapy for the treatment of non‑muscle invasive bladder cancer. Molecular and clinical oncology. 2014 Sep 1;2(5):656-60.