Urology Times staff

“Those pipeline programs that actually foster a sense of community and family, those are the pipeline programs that really do well,” says Randy Vince, MD, MS.

“Our data show that low T is an independent risk factor for adverse peri-op outcomes after transurethral prostate surgery,” says Jasmine Lin, MD.

“We know that with that low toxicity and good functional outcomes, it's an excellent treatment to offer patients,” says Sophia C. Kamran, MD.

"For one thing, we're really interested in looking at plant-based diets in patients who are at high genetic risk for prostate cancer," says Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc.

“It's very helpful when we're looking at how we counsel patients about the stage of their disease,” says Brian F. Chapin, MD.

“Surprisingly, testosterone was not independently associated with frailty on our analysis, but on multivariable analysis, both hospital frailty risk score and low preoperative T were independently associated with 180-day readmission,” says Jasmine Lin, MD.

"Nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer remains an incurable disease state," says Alicia Morgans, MD.

“I would say that overall, the oncologic outcomes are equivalent between the [bladder-sparing treatment and radical cystectomy] for well-selected patients,” says Sophia C. Kamran, MD.

"We found that consuming more plant-based food was associated with significantly better scores for the urinary domains of the quality of life questionnaire," says Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc.

“We're still very interested in early-stage bladder cancer, those at high risk do not respond to BCG,” says Joshua J. Meeks, MD, PhD.

“There's not a perfect chemotherapy; there are a lot of different options, and then other factors to consider would be the field and the dose,” says Sophia Kamran, MD.

"There continues to be immense interest in urinary markers for bladder cancer," says Badrinath Konety, MD, MBA.

“I think the importance of this is that these are more accurate than our current imaging studies in helping us to better counsel patients on the expected treatment options given their current situation,” says Brian F. Chapin, MD.

“I would say that patients who have a very poor bladder function to start with would be a better candidate for radical cystectomy,” says Sophia C. Kamran, MD.

“There are a lot of different ways that we can potentially use these complementary and alternative therapies to help mitigate symptoms in our patients across the realm of urology,” said Sarah P. Psutka, MD.

“Obviously it's important to have options when we're looking at the various tracers that we're using for evaluation of patients with prostate cancer,” says Brian F. Chapin, MD.

"We found in both unadjusted and adjusted analyses that patients seemed to discontinue enzalutamide and apalutamide at slightly earlier time points than darolutamide," said Alicia Morgans, MD.

Rohan Garje, MD, highlights the need for molecular profiling of sarcomatoid urothelial carcinoma tumors as a gateway to advancing the treatment paradigm for this rare bladder cancer variant.

“It’s very important to really talk to the patients and understand any toxicities because the side effects are well managed if they’re caught early,” says Shilpa Gupta, MD.

“It's hard for us as physicians to think about anything other than continuing to put the accelerator into the red zone. But sometimes, a little bit of self-awareness can allow you to sustain a career for many years longer,” says Colin P. West, MD, PhD.

"It pretty much has been adopted around the world so that about 80% of men who are diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer go on active surveillance. In Sweden, it's about 80%. That's considered the goal. But the United States has been slow in adopting this," says William J. Catalona, MD.

“We've made great strides with bladder preservation on many fronts,” says Sophia C. Kamran, MD.

Shilpa Gupta, MD, discusses long-term outcomes of the EV-103 trial, which explored the first-line combination of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

“Our ultimate goal is to come up with strategies that really enhance the life expectancy and the treatment options for our patients with urothelial cancer,” says Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, MD.

“We will never be satisfied with doing ‘just good enough’ for our patients,” says Colin P. West, MD, PhD.

"In this trial, and in all the major IO/TKI trials, the checkpoint inhibitor stopped at 2 years. In this trial it was about 25% of patients who made it to that time point," says Brian I. Rini, MD.

"Unfortunately, I don't think that the triplet of cabo/nivo/ipi is ready as the current dosing for use in RCC with variant histology," says Bradley McGregor, MD.

"All the patients said that they were pleased with the acupuncture that they received, and about 75% said that they would refer other people going through BCG to acupuncture," says Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MS.

"There was a striking decreased survival for patients who had sarcomatoid histology compared to the ones who had the classic variant urothelial histology," says Rohan Garje, MD.

David Olmos, MBBS, MSc, PhD, discusses research presented at the ASCO 2023 Annual Meeting assessing outcomes with first-line novel hormonal therapy or taxane therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer based on patients' BRCA/HRR status.