SUO Annual Meeting

December 18, 2019

Combining the 4Kscore or ExoDx with multiparametric MRI appears to be the optimal strategy for detecting high-grade prostate cancer, a study from the University of California, San Francisco suggests. However, it is reasonable to consider biomarker testing only in patients who want to avoid biopsy, said first author Claire M. de la Calle, MD.

December 17, 2019

Clinicians are taught that renal cell carcinoma is radioresistant, but modalities such as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) can be safe and efficacious in certain patients with RCC. In this interview, Vitaly Margulis, MD, outlines the advantages of SBRT and offers a preview of the RADVAX trial, which combines radiotherapy and immunotherapy.

December 17, 2019

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has provided a “complete genomic roadmap” of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to Seth P. Lerner, MD, co-chair of the Analysis Working Group of the TCGA program for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Dr. Lerner talks to Urology Times about the clinical relevance of the TCGA’s findings, possible implications for upper tract disease, and what further research is needed.

December 17, 2019

The introduction of targeted therapies and immunotherapies has generated uncertainty regarding the role of the cytoreductive nephrectomy in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma. In this interview, Hyung L. Kim, MD, discusses the recent CARMENA and SURTIME clinical trials, and outlines the upcoming SWOG-1931 trial.

December 16, 2019

In a pivotal phase III study, more than half of patients with high-grade nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (carcinoma in situ ± Ta/T1) receiving nadofaragene firadenovec achieved a complete response at 3 months, reported lead author Colin P.N. Dinney, MD.

December 16, 2019

Christopher Sweeney, MBBS, outlines a handful of important questions to ask when deciding which systemic therapy to select for which patient with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

December 12, 2018

“I think it’s time to realize that there are other options besides cystectomy, and that the other options should at least be discussed and entertained,” says Alexandre Zlotta, MD, PhD, in this video.

December 12, 2018

“Over the past few decades, the rate of active surveillance has been around 10%. Now in recent years, the rate of active surveillance is 55% across the U.S. So times are changing," says Sigrid Carlsson, MD, PhD, MPH, in this interview.

December 11, 2018

In this video, Viraj Master, MD, offers the latest evidence and his recommendations for managing synchronous and metachronous disease in the face of renal cell carcinoma, including the role of metastasectomy.

December 11, 2018

In this video interview with Urology Times, Arjun V. Balar, MD, PhD, discusses the current role of PD-1 inhibitors, their mechanism of action, and his own impression of recently presented phase II study data.