About us

Definition

The L.A.R.C.G (Latin American renal cancer group) is a group of scientific and educational, multicentric, multidisciplinary and independent. It is not for profit, and the term of operation is indeterminate. It consists of Urologists, Pathologists and Oncologists, as well as professionals and researchers related to the field of health, belonging to Hospitals in Latin America, Spain and the United States.

Objectives

General: Establish a database on Renal Cancer, which allows us to define regional characteristics: epidemiological, clinical, pathological, molecular and genetic. Specifics: Investigation of renal cancer in its broadest term, by searching for more accurate and reproducible tumor markers, for diagnostic purposes, prognosis and response to treatment. Explore and develop more effective therapeutic alternatives, with a high level of scientific evidence.– Investigate risk factors and develop measures of prevention of renal cancer – To promote the teaching of renal cancer, in collaboration with public and private university institutions.

Participate in technological development programs in the areas of research and medical care to the community, being able to:

Investigate and study the development of new products and equipment for the pharmaceutical or bioengineering industry.
Promoting medical education continues through symposia and other events to improve knowledge about renal cancer.
To promote awareness of renal cancer through Internet sites, courses, scientific events and the publication of scientific publications.

Organization

The LARCG is constituted by a Coordinating Group, Scientific Committee, Ethics Committee and Member Council. Urologists in the LARCG are called “LARCG Members”. Within each Hospital there will be a multidisciplinary team composed of urologists, pathologists and oncologists, called the pathological arm “LARCG-Pathology” and the oncology arm “LARCG-Oncology”. Each team has as leader a Urologist, including within its functions: forming the multidisciplinary team, establishing the tasks of its members and coordinating the research work arising from the team under its responsibility.

Organization Chart

Our team

Founders and Coordinators

Dr. Diego Abreu

Coordinator

Dr. Stênio de Cássio Zequi

Coordinator

Member of Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia
Head of Urology Division-A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Tutor of Graduate School- Antônio Prudente Foudation-SP/ UNIFESP-Escola Paulista de Medicina
Livre Docente Professor-University of São Paulo-USP/FMRP

Secretaries

Ana María Autràn Gómez MD, PHD

Secretaria general / Comité científico

Dr. Juan Yandian

Secretario adjunto

Asistente Catedra de Urologia Hospital de Clínicas.
Montevideo, Uruguay

Scientific Committee

Dr. Gustavo Cardoso Guimarãe

Scientific Committee

Currently works at BP – A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo as Director of the Surgical Oncology Department and does research in Urology and Oncology. Their current project is ‘Robotic Surgery’.

Dr. Gustavo Carvalhal

Scientific Committee

Dr. Jorge Clavijo

Scientific Committee

Profesor Agregado de Urología. Hospital de Clínicas
Montevideo, Uruguay
Subespecialidad: Uro-ginecología y Laparoscopia
Consultant Urological Surgeon St Hugh’s Hospital
Grimsby, United Kingdom.

Dr. José Gadu Campos Salcedo

Scientific Committee

Jefe del Servicio de Urología del Hospital Central Militar
Subespecialidad en Endourología
Cirujano Laparoscopista
Entrenamiento en cirugía asistida por Robot
Miembro Líder LARCG
México, D.F

Dr. Sidney Glina

Honorary member/ Scientific Committee

Professor colaborador (desde 30/01/2008) e orientador permanente do programa de Mestrado e Doutorado (desde 16/12/2008) na disciplina de Urologia da Faculdade de Medicina da Fundação do ABC, Santo André.

Dra. Carmen Gonzalez Enguita

Scientific Committee

Prof. Dr. Guillermo Gueglio

Scientific Committee

Subjefe de Urologia del Htal. Italiano de Bs. As.
Jefe de la Sección de Oncología y Patologia Retroperitoneal.
Profesor Adjunto de Urologia de la Iniversidad de BsAs.
Profesor Adjunto de Urología del Instituto de Medicina del Hospital Italiano de BsAs.
Urologo Consultor de la Sociedad Argentina de Urología.

Dr. Walter Henriques Da Costa

Scientific Committee

Mestre e Doutor em Oncologia
Titular do Núcleo de Urologia do A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Orientador do Programa de Pós-Graduação,
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
São Paulo – Brazil.

Fernando Korkes, MD, PhD

Scientific Committee

Chefe do Grupo de Uro-Oncologia da Faculdade de Medicina do ABC.
Chefe do grupo de Urologia do Hospital de Ensino da Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Albert Einstein.

Dr. Antonio Carlos Lima Pompeo

Honorary member/ Scientific Committee

Faculdade de Medicina do ABC | FMABC · Urology

Dr. Marcos Tobias Machado

Editor / Scientific Committee

Disciplina de Urología – Doutor em Medicina pela Universidade.
Medico Assistente do ICAVC.
Prof de pos graduação uro-oncologia e cirurgia laparoscopica/robotica.
Prof de laparoscopia avançada do IRCAD- America Latina. Sao Paulo, Brasil.

Dr. Rafael Mamprin Stopiglia

Scientific Committee

Urologia – CRM-SP 94897
Clinica Uro Hominis
R: Eduardo Lane 275 – Campinas – SP
F: 19 3284-4420
Urologia Oncológica – UNICAMP
F : 19 3521-7844

Dr. Lucas Nogueira

Scientific Committee

Subespecialidad
Hospital das Clinicas
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais-UFMG
Belo Horizonte – Brasil.

Dr. Leonardo Oliveira Reis

Scientific Committee

Dr. Joan Palou

Scientific Committee

Médico Urólogo, Doctor en Medicina y Cirugía
Jefe del Servicio de Urologia de la Fundacio Piugvert
jpalou@fundacio-puigvert.es

Dr. Jose Rozanec

Scientific Committee

Subespecialidad Laparoscopia
Hospital Austral
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. Fernando Secin

Scientific Committee

Urología Oncológica
Fundación San Lázaro
Adscripto a la sección urología de CEMIC
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FRCS(C)

Scientific Committee

Associate Member, Department of GU Oncology
Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, US

Dr. Hamilton Zampolli

Scientific Committee

Ethics Committee

Dr. Ricardo Decia

Ethics Committee

Urólogo, Subespecialidad Endourología, Laparoscopia y Andrología
Jefe del Servicio de Urología
Hospital Pasteur
Montevideo Uruguay

Dr. Raul Langenhin

Ethics Committee

Ex asistente Cátedra de Urología, Hospital de Clínicas
Montevideo, Uruguay
Cirujano General y Urólogo, Servicio de Urología de Comepa
(Corporación Médica de Paysandú) y Hospital Público de Paysandú, Uruguay

Dr. Luis Fernando Meza Montoya

Ethics Committee

Médico asistente del Departamento de Cirugía Urológica
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas
Presidente de la Asociación Peruana para el Estudio del Cáncer Urológico (APECU)
Lima, Perú

Dr. Alejandro Nolazco

Ethics Committee

Jefe del Servicio de Urología Hospital Británico.
Subespecialidad Oncología e HPB.
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. Francisco Rodríguez-Covarrubias

Ethics Committee

Médico Especialista, Departamento de Urología,
Subespecialidad: Urología oncológica y Laparoscopia
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Ciudad de México

Members