Hannah Clarke

"What was great about this partnership is we recognized that this is going to be the future of medicine at some point, and we want to be able to be a part of that cutting edge technology," says Nitin K. Yerram, MD.

Optimal bedtime was determined using the bedtime and mid-awake time for each patient, which was gathered from an Actiwatch Spectrum device.

In this installment, Suzanne B. Merrill, MD, FACS, and Dan Humer, PA-C, highlight Colorado Urology, a Denver-based practice within the United Urology group.

"In summary, it was safe and effective. There [were] no serious adverse events...and the vast majority of patients received no anesthesia with very similar results to shock wave lithotripsy,” said Ben H. Chew, MD, MSc, FRCSC.

"It is unique given that in addition to providing prognostic information, it can serve as a marker to predict sensitivity to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), which is the backbone of systemic therapy for men with prostate cancer," says Rana R. McKay, MD.

The tool uses clinical covariates to predict changes in storage, voiding, and nocturia LUTS for patients receiving placebo, dutasteride, tamsulosin, or DUT/TAM combination therapy.

"Proxies for social determinants of health that we found to be associated with higher overall mortality included living in a more deprived area, as well as having Medicaid or Medicare insurance," says David Miller, MD.

In the ARASTEP trial, the primary outcome measure of rPFS is being measured by PSMA-PET/CT imaging with 68Ga-PSMA-11 (prepared using Illuccix) or piflufolastat F 18.

The methylation-based urine test is performed on a qPCR platform and is intended for use in conjunction with cystoscopy.

"The most important thing for transgender women and their health care providers to remember is that prostate cancer screening shouldn’t be neglected," said Stephen J. Freedland, MD.

“The results of the study imply that UGN-101 is not only a renal-preserving therapy for UTUC in this comorbid population, but could potentially delay the time to dialysis or radical nephroureterectomy," says Kyle M. Rose, MD.

"At our institution, we used a [quality improvement] protocol to first decrease overall antibiotic duration from the more standard 30 days, and then we further decreased it along with ureteral stent decrease,” says Jessica Wenzel, MD, MPH.

The guideline updates span non-metastatic upper tract urothelial carcinoma, female stress urinary incontinence, urethral stricture disease, and prostate cancer.

"This is something [that is] a lot easier for the patient, it's a lot less costly to the health care system to stay out of the operating room, and it's a lot quicker for me," says Howard B. Goldman, MD.

“Our results indicate that avoiding unhealthy dietary habits could be the best nutritional strategy to prevent aggressive prostate cancer,” says Adela Castelló-Pastor, PhD.

The tool uses a tumor-to-salivary gland ratio (PSG score) to predict outcomes.

"Our findings underscore the commercial and market factors that have been influencing bladder cancer care," says Brian Chun, MD.

TLX250-CDx PET/CT demonstrated a high degree of sensitivity (85.5%) and specificity (87.0%) for detection of clear cell renal cell carcinoma in patients with indeterminate renal masses.

"When we looked at those cumulative effects of these 3 characteristics: 65 years and older, 3 or more OAB symptoms, 4 or more comorbid conditions, the odds of screening positive were about 6-fold higher in women," says Steve R. Fisher, PhD, PT, GCS.

"The sad thing is that with something like OAB, we already have so many barriers to getting patients in to initiate care in the first place," says A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD.

“There is a lack of information regarding the prevalence and implications of [prostate cancer] in transgender women, and this highlights the crucial need for further research into prevention, detection, and treatment," says Hayley Premo.

“Our data indicate that usage of a PCNL equipment whiteboard led to significant improvements in team perception of inter-disciplinary communication and case item selection accuracy," says Jenny N. Guo, MD.

"The evidence is starting to show us that although efficacy in terms of managing OAB symptoms may be equal or similar across studies for these 2 classes of medications, safety and tolerability are very different," says A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD.

In this installment, Jonathan Clavell, MD, FACS, highlights Clavell Urology, his private practice within Robert J Cornell MD, PA, in Houston, Texas.

"Our preliminary clinical trial found that TAR-200 was generally safe, well tolerated, and had beneficial effects on bladder cancer outcomes in a group of patients with limited treatment options," said Mark Tyson, MD, MPH.

Investigators found that the total out-of-pocket costs associated with oral therapies for prostate cancer were approximately 18 times higher compared with ADT.

"[This] could be a paradigm shift in prostate cancer,” says Eugene Shenderov, MD, PhD.

In combination, the number of immune cells in and around kidney tumors, the amount of dead cancer tissue, and the mutations of PBRM1 can serve as biomarkers of response to immunotherapy in patients with kidney cancer.

"When we put this course together, we didn't want it to be a course about working more; it was really about working more efficiently, so that you can gain more time outside of work," says Angela B. Smith, MD, MS.

At 5-year follow-up, overall survival among patients with kidney cancer who had quit smoking was 85% compared with 61% for those that continued to smoke.