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Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI) has presented its third annual Dr. Gerald Chodak Award to Pioneers in Active Surveillance (AS) to Dr. Peter Carroll, of the University of California, San Francisco. Carroll, former head of urology at UCSF and who still performs surgery there, helped develop AS and remains a major researcher in the field. The award is a ceremonial bowl based on one designed by Dr. Chodak, who died at age 72 in 2019.

Previous Chodaks award recipients are Drs, Laurence Klotz, of the University of Toronto, and Dr. Peter Albertsen. The doctors attended the online award presentation to Dr. Caroll.

Chodak was a pioneer in recommending a more conservative approach to managing low-risk prostate cancer and ending an epidemic of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Chodak was ASPI’s first medical advisor and previously had help start Us TOO International, an early support group for men with prostate cancer, which now is part of ZERO Prostate Cancer.