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"Clinicians taking care of patients with high-risk prostate cancer being assessed for prostatectomy can use a positive [PSMA] PET scan as a true positive, whereas a negative scan cannot be used to exclude disease or inform nodal dissection," wrote Joseph Osborne, MD, PhD, and colleagues.

"As a committee, we felt that there was a need to put together a document to help field some of the ethical considerations that we run into in clinical care but have very little guidance on," says Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, FACS, FPMRS.

As a committee, we felt that there was a need to put together a document to help field some of the ethical considerations that we run into in clinical care but have very little guidance on,” says Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, FACS, FPMRS.

In a recent study presented at the 2021 AUA Annual Meeting, Scarlett Gomez, MPH, PhD, and co-authors investigated the determinants of selecting active surveillance/watchful waiting as a treatment path for patients with localized, low-risk prostate cancer.

“This type of collaboration [between SEER and GPS assay] is a really nice illustration of the types of projects that we should be undertaking in the future,” says Scarlett Gomez, MD, PhD.

“We're increasingly seeing the addition of molecular and genetic tests to guide us in terms of the cancer treatment that we provide our patients,” says Scarlett Gomez, MD, PhD.

The SAP program cultivates a community of advocacy groups, medical associations, and medical institutions to foster collaboration and an open exchange of information among trusted peers for the ultimate benefit of patients and their families.

“Suicide is a disproportionate cause of mortality in physicians,” Pruthi says.

The study is evaluating the triplet in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have become resistant to first-line treatment with an androgen receptor signaling inhibitor.

The classifier can be a useful adjunct for clinical decision-making, an investigator says.

Advances in robotic URS will help target stones and reduce ionizing radiation.