April 19th 2024
“This is the first study to show a statistically significant and clinically meaningful survival improvement with any adjuvant therapy in kidney cancer, and this further supports adjuvant pembrolizumab as a standard of care after surgery in this disease setting,” says Toni K. Choueiri, MD.
Medical Crossfire®: Expert Exchanges to Maximize Clinical Outcomes for Patients with CRPC Through Evidence-Based Personalized Therapy
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How the Experts Treat NMIBC During a BCG Shortage—Integrating Recent Approvals and Investigational Therapies
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Staying Abreast of the Prostate Cancer Treatment Paradigm From Risk Stratification to Adaptive Sequencing Strategies
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Everything You Need to Know About PARP Inhibitor Combinations in Prostate Cancer Care: Why? For Whom? And When?
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Clinical Case Vignette Series: Integrating Recent Data into Practice to Improve Outcomes in Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Medical Crossfire®: How Will Emerging Data Inform Treatment Planning for Patients With Prostate Cancer in the Community?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Does Recent Evidence on PARP Inhibitors and Combinations Inform Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer Now and In the Future?
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What do you like/dislike about practicing in your state?
August 28th 2018“Florida, specifically South Florida, is a very tough place to practice. There’s a fairly prominent infiltration of Medicare HMOs with a lot of obstruction to doing anything for the patient that’s necessary," says one urologist.
Minimally invasive surgery: PN can be used for complex tumors
July 13th 2018Noteworthy minimally invasive surgery research from AUA 2018 also included topics such as robot-assisted versus open radical cystectomy as well as minimally invasive retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in men with testis cancer.
Kidney Ca: Robotic partial, radical nephrectomy on the rise
July 11th 2018Active surveillance in selected patients with localized renal masses 4 cm to 7 cm and a patient-derived xenograft system for predicting response to targeted and immune therapies in patients with metastatic RCC were among other noteworthy kidney cancer studies presented at AUA 2018.
Positive data reported for hydrogel-based urothelial Ca agent
June 4th 2018“The high initial complete response rate and durability observed in the interim analysis is very promising and suggests that UGN-101 could be an effective and well-tolerated noninvasive treatment for patients with UTUC,” says researcher Seth Paul Lerner, MD.
Renal mass surveillance trends revealed
June 4th 2018An analysis of trends in the management of renal masses shows growing use of active surveillance, although some data suggest “a proportion of surveillance cases may have been due to lack of access to care instead of truly choosing active surveillance,” says study author Ketan K. Badani, MD.
[Quiz] Abdominal pain after laparoscopic nephrectomy
December 15th 2017A 46-year-old male underwent a left laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for a cT1b renal cell carcinoma. Intra-operatively, a rent in the descending mesocolon was made during bowel mobilization but was not closed. Subsequently, the patient presented to the emergency room 4 days later with complaints of sudden onset sharp abdominal pain and nausea. A non-contrast computed tomography scan was obtained. What is the diagnosis?