Dr. Syan recaps AUA 2024 sessions on urodynamics, PTNS devices
May 24th 2024Raveen Syan, MD, highlights 2 sessions that she took part in during the 2024 AUA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas on urodynamics in the context of the VALUE trial and the new wave of percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation devices.
Dr. Narayan discusses 5-year data on nadofaragene firadenovec in NMIBC
May 22nd 2024"The other was that we found that about half of the patients in the CIS cohort and two-thirds of those in the Ta/T1 or papillary cohort had bladder preservation, meaning they were able to avoid cystectomy," says Vikram M. Narayan, MD.
Investigators examine nationwide variations in genomic expression profiles in prostate cancer
May 21st 2024"We saw that Black men within this cohort had lower Decipher scores across all ages and Gleason scores different than what had been reported in other data sets, which was interesting," says Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS.
Dr. Soon-Shiong highlights efforts to increase access to N-803 in NMIBC
May 20th 2024“But more importantly, there are patients who have no insurance, there are patients who have no other resources and are maybe even on the poverty line. We feel, importantly, that we have an obligation that the drug be made free for these patients in the United States,” says Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD.
PNE vs Stage 1 lead placement compared for rate of progression to SNM device implantation
May 19th 2024"In the study, about two thirds of the residents did undergo PNE and one third underwent Stage 1, and those who underwent PNE were less likely to progress to device implant than Stage 1," says Leo Dreyfuss, MD.
Dr. Bernie on testosterone therapy for men on active surveillance
May 15th 2024“The 2018 AUA guidelines for testosterone therapy that were co-chaired by Dr. John P. Mulhall say that we have an absence or a paucity of data on using testosterone therapy on active surveillance,” says Helen L. Bernie, DO, MPH.
Future research directions following study of UTI rates in transgender women post-vaginoplasty
May 14th 2024"We did discuss a couple of future research ideas, a number of which would have been controlling for those potential factors we thought could contribute to the increased UTI risk that we were not able to control for in the study like loss of commensal bacteria or anything of that nature," says David Gilbert.