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MEN’S HEALTH Exclusive Interview with Hinsdale’s Dr. Brian Moran Pioneer and Cancer Survivor
34 HinsdaleMag.com | HINSDALE MAGAZINE Brian J. Moran, MD is Medical Director of Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, which he helped found in 1997.
Brian Moran knew at an early age he wanted to help people. In 1978, while a senior at Hinsdale Central High School, he was diagnosed with aggressive testicular cancer. Moran found himself gravitating towards medicine after the cancer came back, and participated in a clinical study at Indiana University, where he received chemotherapy. He has fortunately been cancer-free ever since.
“I knew what [cancer patients] were going through, and I ended up in the field of radiation oncology,” Moran said. Moran went on to medical school, and eventually pursued a career to advance the practice of brachytherapy using radioactive materials surgically implanted to treat the cancers. He founded Chicago Prostate Center in 1997, after realizing the procedures in the hospital setting were inefficient – and by no fault of the hospitals, but simply due to the complexity of the procedure. At the time, the concept of focused healthcare centers of excellence was coming into play in medicine, and the Chicago Prostate Center building became the location for a single procedure for men across the nation and the world. Moran was involved with the early development of this procedure through his colleagues in Seattle and Europe, which eventually became popular in the United States.
SCOTT JONLICH: You gave me the opportunity to watch an actual surgery, which was really amazing. Tell me the specific material and the process of implanting the seeds. DR. BRIAN MORAN: The first step is to diagnose the cancer of the prostate, and then (during the procedure) we actually place small radioactive seeds or pellets into the prostate using a small needle. There’s no incision involved, and this is done under ultrasound guidance. It’s very exact. We can place these little pellets within a millimeter of each other. And what they do is, they’ll give off a very intense but localized dose of radiation just to the cancer. The results have been outstanding, with similar cure rates to other treatment options, and it allows the patient to maintain a quality of life. The patient is able to go about their business a few hours after the procedure and go home.
SCOTT JONLICH: The Chicago center has become part of DuPage Medical Group as of April 1. Tell me about that process and how it came about. DR. BRIAN MORAN: Medicine is changing. Chicago Prostate Center was its own facility and its own entity, and so with all of the changes in medicine today, from a provider standpoint, we thought it was best to align ourselves with a forward-thinking group; and clearly DuPage Medical Group is on the move, and so it’s been a great relationship.
SCOTT JONLICH: What should men specifically be aware of when it comes to their prostates, from awareness to precautionary things they need to do? DR. BRIAN MORAN: I would say prostate cancer does not discriminate. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, black or white, young or old; it’s there, and there are varying degrees of severity of the cancer. Some are non-threatening and others are very aggressive.
But today, with early diagnosis and screening through a blood-test and a digital rectal exam, we’re able to identify these cancers in the early stages. The screening recommendations are men at age 50 should have that PSA test and a digital exam. If you have a family history, meaning your father or brothers, then you should have it performed at age 40, or if you’re African-American.
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