Charles Bankhead

Other female urology topics discussed at this year's AUA meeting include preoperative urodynamics for women undergoing prolapse surgery and a study on nocturia.

Men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy had significant improvement in strength and exercise capacity following a 10-week program of physical activity, education, and support, according to a study reported at the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Men with advanced prostate cancer had similar survival with intermittent or continuous androgen deprivation therapy, pooled data from two randomized trials showed.

Thulium vapoenucleation of the prostate provided significant and durable symptomatic improvement in benign prostatic obstruction, long-term follow-up of a clinical series showed.

Following suburethral mesh sling removal, half of patients had operations to treat incontinence, according to a study reported at the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Three different procedures to treat stress urinary incontinence led to high rates of recurrence-free outcomes at 5 years, and the choice of retreatment of SUI varied according to the initial procedure, long-term follow-up in two randomized trials showed.

Need for a repeat voiding trial after midurethral sling surgery does not increase the likelihood of a suboptimal outcome and may even predict a better long-term result, say researchers from the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network.

Epigenetic profiling of prostate biopsies significantly improved the accuracy of predicting cancer in men with negative results, according to a late-breaking abstract presented at the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Combining a prostate cancer gene assay with standard risk-stratification factors substantially increased information to guide decision making about active surveillance, a validation study of the assay showed.

A minimally invasive implant procedure led to a 50% improvement in lower urinary tract symptoms due to BPH, which was maintained for a year, results of a randomized trial showed.