Rodney Breau
Senior Clinician Scientist, Acute Care Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Greta and John Hansen Chair in Men's Health Research
The Ottawa Hospital
Urologist
The Ottawa Hospital
Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery
University of Ottawa
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
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Publications
Reply: Interpretation and Limitations of a Recalibrated Postprostatectomy Continence Nomogram: Validation Bias and Clinical Applicability
2026-10-15 Go to publicationRe: ‘Reconciling primary outcomes and statistical power: comment on a randomised controlled trial on prostate biopsy approaches’
2026-06-01 Go to publicationOutcomes and Predictors of Recurrence and Survival in Surgically Resected Localized Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results from the Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System (CKCis)
2026-03-19 Go to publicationProstate cancer detection by MRI‐ultrasonography fusion transperineal vs transrectal biopsy: a randomised control trial
2025-10-01 Go to publication