Mr Alan Doherty

Consultant Urologist
MB BS, BSc, MD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU

Practising at

Spire Parkway Hospital

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Mr Alan Doherty at Spire include:

Urology

Professional profile

I have been a Consultant Urologist for 15 years working in one of the biggest cancer centres in the UK. I am one of the few (if only) surgeons who has performed over 3,000 radical prostatectomies with all three main approaches: robotic, laparoscopic and open. I specialise in nerve sparing and have a tract record or being able to maintain potency in up to 80% of patients (see Birmingham Prostate Clinic results section).

I also treat benign prostatic diseases, being well known for my enthusiasm for Greenlight Laser but also recognising and using the new technologies such as UROLIFT, a first-line treatment that gets men off BPH medications and allows them to avoid major surgery as well as the more traditional but effective Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP).

I am well known for an enthusiasm for PSA screening, but not for prostate biopsy. I am an advocate of pre biopsy MRI. PCA-3 urine gene testing. I provide an MRI fusion mapping template prostate biopsy service. I am one of the two recognised invasive bladder cancer surgeons at UHB, with one of the largest experience in neobladders.

Private contact details

Telephone

0121 704 5530

Journals

Prostate cancer and PSA in the Lancet
Prostate cancer and PSA in the British Journal of Cancer

Qualification and professional memberships

MB BS, BSc, MD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU / The Middlesex Hospital, The Royal Marsden and Charing Cross Hospitals / 1988
Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine, Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, Fellow of the European Board of Urology