The Department of Continuing Education of Harvard Medical School and members of the faculty of Harvard Medical School held a multidisciplinary course on the management of patients with urologic cancer in the fall of 1982. This course high- lighted the multidisciplinary approach to the care of these patients, and outlined the clinical and pathophysiological basis for diagnosis and treatment. The term multidisciplinary was essential to the course in which the disciplines of uro- logic surgery, medical oncology, and radiation therapy were each appropriately emphasized. Widespread interest in the...