The major discussions of advances in understanding and treating BPHmay take place in the hallways rather than in the official meetingrooms during this month's AUA annual meeting, Claus G. Roehrborn,MD, professor and chairman of the department of urology at theUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, toldUrology Times.
It's safe to say that when the sequencing of the human genome wascompleted in April 2003, the diagnosis and treatment of maleinfertility was turned on its ear.
Urologists attending the 2006 AUA annual meeting can look forwardto hearing about promising new reconstructive techniques for malegenital disorders. Studies will spotlight a number of approachesthat are at various stages of maturity, including some that arebeing reported for the very first time.
Advances in stem cell therapy trials and minimally invasivesurgical procedures are key trends in urinary incontinence that arelikely to emerge at this month's AUA annual meeting. In both humanand animal trials, skeletal muscle cells show significant promiseas an eventual replacement for surgery in treating stressincontinence, said Shlomo Raz, MD, director of female urology,urodynamics, and reconstructive surgery at the UCLA Medical Center.
We are gathering valuable information about the roles of geneticsand diet.
Urologists should begin to assess whether ablative techniques forsmall renal tumors are feasible within their own practiceenvironment.
Attendees at the AUA annual meeting will hear about a number ofexciting developments relating to the treatment of male sexualdysfunction and will learn about important epidemiologic researchthat could have significant implications for clinical management,according to Gregory A. Broderick, MD, professor of urology, MayoClinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Slow, steady, and encouraging are the most appropriate terms todescribe recent changes in the treatment of renal cell carcinoma.Breakthroughs are on the horizon, and two new drugs andevolutionary advances in surgical technique add up to a hopefulpicture.
Pediatric urologists trained solely in traditional surgical methodswould be well advised to use their CME credits for courses inlaparoscopic and robotic surgery techniques. That, says Howard M.Snyder, III, MD, is inevitably the direction in which thesubspecialty is headed.
At the upcoming AUA annual meeting, urologists will see newconcepts emerging from research in both urinary tract infection andprostatitis, but those will take some time to produce newtherapies, cautioned Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD.
The definition of advanced prostate cancer has evolved over thepast decade, and clinical trials now underway are poised totransform clinical practice, according to Paul F. Schellhammer, MD,professor of urology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and programdirector of the Virginia Prostate Center, Norfolk.
Technology is both a long-term commitment and a long-term solution.
Will physicians be more inclined to use electronic prescribing andelectronic health records if their hospital, group practice, oranother entity provide the necessary computers, software, andtechnical support?
Today, interstitial cystitis is being viewed more as a painsyndrome than as a bladder disease, and that new view is drivingmuch of the research that urologists will hear about at this year'sAUA annual meeting and beyond. It should also inform their approachto treatment until the cause and cure are discovered, according toPhilip M. Hanno, MD.
Paris-For most men who have urinary incontinence afterradical prostatectomy, a sling and an artificial urinary sphincter(AUS) offer equally good outcomes, according to findings from aretrospective, double-cohort study reported at the EuropeanAssociation of Urology annual congress here.
Research presented at the upcoming AUA annual meeting will includesome intriguing new findings about the cause, diagnosis, andmanagement of localized prostate cancer, said Richard D. Williams,MD.
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The Infusion Nurses Society (INS) has issued revised standards oncatheter stabilization that now recommend the use of a manufacturedcatheter device, when feasible.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., has been granted FDA approvalfor a generic formulation of mitoxantrone hydrochloride injection,2 mg/mL.
Urologix, Inc., has received FDA approval to market its CoolWavecontrol unit for use with its catheter-based treatments that usemicrowave technology to treat BPH.
According to a recent report from the American Cancer Society,tobacco use, physical inactivity, obesity, and poor nutritionremain major preventable causes of cancer and other diseases in theUnited States.
Primary androgen deprivation therapy appears to control localizedprostate cancer in the majority of patients who receive it, atleast for an intermediate period, according to a study published inCancer (2006; 106:1708-14).
Chronic inflammation may be a significant risk factor in thedevelopment of prostate cancer, suggest results of a study fromCase Western Reserve University researchers in Cleveland.
Vancouver, British Columbia-Predicting off-treatment time forintermittent androgen suppression is complex and involves manyfactors, said Laurence Klotz, MD, chief, division of urology,Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center in Toronto.
San Francisco-Women with prediabetes who lose a modest amountof weight through attention to diet and increased physical activityhave a reduced likelihood of suffering from urinary incontinence,according to recently published results from The DiabetesPrevention Program (DPP). An intensive lifestyle intervention wasshown to reduce the prevalence of stress, but not urge,incontinence.
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Clearwater Beach, FL-Physicians who are faced with anincontinent, wet child should always ask that child if he or she isconstipated, specialists suggest.
Clearwater Beach, FL-In children with incontinence,urodynamic studies are warranted in a small minority of cases,according to pediatric urology experts.
