Team of Doctors

Dr. Celestia Higano: Going the Distance
According to Dr. Higano, creative thinking is the key to devising the best treatment plan for an individual patient and to unearthing new treatments with the potential to benefit many people who have the disease. This demand for creativity is both the most challenging and most enjoyable aspect of her work, she says.

Dr. Paul Lange: When the Doctor is the Patient
His experience with prostate cancer, Dr. Lange says, made him an even better doctor, one who has more empathy for his patients' fears and concerns. "It's changed the way I listen to patients," says Dr. Lange, who is now cured of the disease. "I'm a lot more sympathetic to [their worries] than I was before. I don't think there's any question about that."

Dr. Bruce Montgomery: Heads leading-edge Prostate Team
SCCA was formed, in part, to bring promising new research to patients faster. “The research being done here is cutting-edge,” Dr. Montgomery says. “We do very different kinds of research. The research you get here is ahead of the curve. The cooperative group studies are very important, but it’s the early phase studies which give patients access to the newest and most exciting therapies.”

Dr. Evan Ya-Wen Yu, MD: Physician Profile
If Dr. Evan Ya-Wen Yu brings even half his enthusiasm for oncology to his beloved game of racquetball, stay off the courts. Yu, a medical oncologist, treats prostate, bladder and testicular cancer at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and he’s passionate about searching for the next wave of cancer treatments—targeted agents with greater cancer specificity and fewer side effects.

May 2007

The Prostate Cancer team members include:

James P. Dean, MD, PHD — Medical Oncology

William Ellis, MD — Urology

Celestia S. Higano, MD — Medical Oncology, Urology

Paul Lange, MD — Surgery, Urology

Daniel W. Lin, MD — Urology

R. Bruce Montgomery, MD — Medical Oncology

Peter S. Nelson, MD — Medical Oncology, Pathology

Kenneth J. Russell, MD — Radiation Oncology

Thomas Takayama, MD — Urology

Evan Ya-Wen Yu, MD — Medical Oncology