Rodney Breau

Rodney Breau

Senior Scientist, Acute Care Research

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Contact

613-737-8899 ext. 73019

Bio

Dr. Rodney Breau is a Surgical Oncologist, Professor of Urology at The University of Ottawa, and Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He attended medical school at Dalhousie University and urology residency at the University of Ottawa. He completed his Urologic Oncology and Robotic Surgery Fellowship at Mayo Clinic and received a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research from Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Breau leads several clinical trials in urologic oncology and transfusion medicine and has authored over 200 publications on these topics. He is the Chair a large national cohort of patients with Kidney Cancer (CKCis) and the Chair of the Canadian Urology Association Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Research Goals and Interests

Prostate Cancer
Bladder Cancer
Kidney Cancer
Testicular Cancer
Robotic Surgery
Blood loss and transfusion during surgery
Evidence based medicine
Clinical Trials
Cohort Studies
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical Decision Tools

Multicenter RCT assessing renal hypothermia during partial nephrectomy

Multicenter RCT assessing the effectiveness of tranexamic acid during radical cystectomy

Multicenter RCT assessing the effectiveness of tranexamic acid during high transfusion-risk surgery

Multicenter RCT of adjuvant androgen deprivation therapy following prostate cancer surgery

Evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for prostate cancer


News


Publications

Prostate cancer detection by MRI‐ultrasonography fusion transperineal vs transrectal biopsy: a randomised control trial

2025-10-01 Go to publication

Reply: Validation of Prognostic Models for Renal Cell Carcinoma Recurrence, Cancer Specific Mortality, and All-Cause Mortality

2025-05-01 Go to publication

Benefit of Whole-Pelvis Radiation for Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: An Inverse Probability Treatment Weighted Analysis

2025-01-20 Go to publication

Germline Susceptibility to Renal Cell Carcinoma and Implications for Genetic Screening

2024-07-01 Go to publication

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