The better the relationship is between men and their health care provider, the greater their chance of receiving prostate cancer screening and the less likely they are to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, regardless of their race, researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, reported in Cancer online.
In the 15 years following a radical prostatectomy, there is only a 12% mortality rate directly connected to prostate cancer, regardless of the cancer?s aggressiveness, according to a multicenter study appearing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology online. Comparatively, there was a 38% rate of non-cancer-related death in this same group of patients.
Incidentally detected small renal masses (SRMs) are not always cancer, and even those that are biopsy-proven renal cell carcinoma tend to grow slowly initially and have a low risk of metastasis, according to analyses of data.
Among surgeons contemplating performing a minimally invasive partial nephrectomy, the choice of procedure boils down to the approach that provides the highest level of comfort for the surgeon.
It's not clear yet whether transvaginal mesh offers superior anatomic or symptomatic outcomes compared to traditional apical suspension repairs.
In patients with primary T1G3 bladder cancer who undergo initial treatment with endovesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG [TheraCys, TICE BCG]), development of high-grade disease recurrence after 3 months is a prognostic factor for progression.
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While some urology practices are adding physician extenders, others are having as much difficulty finding them as finding urologists.
Urologists around the country lament the difficulty in finding and keeping good employees, and even gripe about the deteriorating performance and attitudes found in some of the more demanding positions. My advice: They're your employees, so it's time to take ownership of the problem.
Combination of an immunofluorescence test and cytology may improve quality of bladder cancer diagnostics.
In an earlier article, we examined the reasons why an early EMR adopter might need to migrate to an entirely new clinical information system and some of the important issues that need to be addressed in managing that migration. In this article, we show how one practice overcame these challenges.
The question is no longer if health care reform will occur, but when and what it will look like.
A non-bone-anchored male sling appears to resolve mild to moderate post-prostatectomy incontinence in up to 80% of patients and may also lead to significant improvement in erectile and sexual function.
A solitary positive apical margin following radical prostatectomy is associated with a higher biochemical recurrence rate than are negative surgical margins., but positive apical margins are associated with a lower recurrence rate than non-apical or multifocal positive margins are.
"We're just starting, but I'm not looking forward to it."
A study by psychologists and urologists has found that factors affecting erectile function after prostatectomy have much the same impact after other prostate cancer treatments.
Most women who undergo sacral neuromodulation for refractory overactive bladder report concomitant bowel symptoms when asked.
AUA has addressed a number of questions and controversies concerning small renal masses in a new clinical guideline reflecting current research. Steven C. Campbell, MD, PhD, guideline co-chair, discusses the rationale for the guideline and key recommendations.
Planned radical prostatectomy within 8 weeks of preoperative radiotherapy is well tolerated and may result in downstaging of the disease, according to results of a phase I study.
The superiority of nephron-sparing surgery over radical nephrectomy in preserving renal function extends to tumors larger than 4 cm.
Urologists are being urged to actively participate in health care reform because the result will have a major impact on how they conduct their practices and treat their patients for years to come.
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The controversial concept of medical home calls for a team led by a physician, usually a primary care physician, to be paid extra to handle personalized coordination of a patient's care across the health care system, including acting as liaison with other providers.
In select patients with renal cortical tumors up to 7 cm in size, partial nephrectomy appears to be a reasonable option that doesn't compromise overall or cancer-specific survival.
A standardized scoring system for grading the anatomy of renal masses enables meaningful comparisons of outcomes and provides a clinical tool for guiding tumor management decisions.
New bladder cancer data are food for thought, but are not conclusive proof that urologists are over-treating early-stage bladder cancer and running up costs.
With all of the negative sentiment surrounding the financial markets, is it appropriate to simply avoid them until things improve?
Aggressive treatment for early-stage bladder cancer does not appear to benefit patients with the disease and may even increase the likelihood for later intervention compared with less-intensive treatment.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a new surgical approach they call a "T-shunt" that appears to resolve ischemic priapism efficiently and effectively with minimal morbidity.
