Dr. Richards on the effect of Agent Orange exposure on BCG treatment in NMIBC
September 30th 2023“We wound up finding that there was no difference in recurrence, no difference in secondary events, and no difference in our survival end points whether or not you were exposed to Agent Orange,” says Kyle A. Richards, MD, FACS.
Dr. Kim shares his concerns with ProtecT trial interpretations
September 27th 2023"I think what should be more appropriate is that the initial treatment decision does not impact [survival], but I don't think you can say that intervening aggressively for this lethal disease does not alter the course," says Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA.
Dr. James Ferguson on future research needs for muscle-invasive bladder cancer
September 25th 2023“At this point, we really have to consider the hard work and next steps of setting up multi-institutional databases and registries aimed at drilling down on patient and provider factors and medical decision-making around this diagnosis,” says James Ferguson III, MD, PhD.
Dr. Wallis discusses future work exploring surgeon gender and patient outcomes
September 22nd 2023“What we're thinking here is that surgeon sex is a surrogate for a whole series of behaviors driven by sociologic conditioning of how people interact with each other and how physicians practice medicine,” says Christopher J.D. Wallis, MD, PhD.
Dr. Singhal on understanding functional outcomes after radical prostatectomy
September 20th 2023“The driving force for this was understanding whether we have made improvements as surgeons over time in how we're able to remove the prostate, but then also what types of functional outcomes patients have with regards to urinary function and sexual function,” says Udit Singhal, MD.
Dr. Chew and Dr. Bhojani on knowledge gaps related to intrarenal pressure
September 18th 2023"We're currently doing a multicenter, prospective study using the new Boston Scientific scope to measure intrarenal pressure for every ureteroscopy that we perform to get more data and to be able to identify these patients earlier, before they get septic," says Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC.