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“I think the great thing about Cost Plus Drugs is that, as we mentioned, it's simple, but it's also price transparent," says Raymond Xu, MD.

Enzalutamide plus talazoparib significantly extended overall survival vs enzalutamide alone in mCRPC.

"There really wasn't a difference in in surgical outcomes. The patients tolerated it very well,” says Joshua J. Meeks, MD, PhD.

Ian Metzler, MD, discusses developments in imaging and treating stones.

“Given the rates in epidemiologic studies and surveys showing that up to 70% of women are symptomatic, we were surprised to find that only 9% [filled] a prescription,” says Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH, FACS, URPS.

Sima P. Porten, MD, MPH, discusses the need to better understand how genetic makeup influences how individuals process environmental toxins.

“I think it will help patients decide what prostate surgery they want,” says Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC.

“The benefit of being here at the University of Minnesota is that we have a bunch of different types of settings to be able to trial this," says Hailey Frye.

"What we found is that 9% of women with a GSM-related diagnosis filled a prescription for vaginal estrogen during the study period, and these women tended to be younger," says Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH, FACS, URPS.

“I feel a lot of providers, with Antiva being available, have unfortunately reserved use of this great FDA-approved agent for BCG-unresponsive patients because of the supply issue with BCG," says Suzanne B. Merrill, MD, FACS.

Betty Wang, MD, provides insight on 3 presentations that she believes “may be game changing” in urology.

"We should not be preemptively reducing the dose for all our patients, because half of the patients will never develop grade 3/4 anemia," says Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO.

"We can improve urinary tract infections considerably with behavioral modification," says Anna Myers, CNP.

“The NIAGARA approval really begins to bring immunotherapy into the neoadjuvant setting," says Joshua J. Meeks, MD, PhD.

“I think it's primarily due to dietary changes that are more and more prevalent regardless of sex,” says Ian Metzler, MD, MTM.

“I would say the take-home message for this study is that prescribing tamsulosin for a week prior to an anticipated surgery that involves flexible ureteroscopy is a very simple practice that certainly is within standard of care within pediatric urology," says Kate H. Kraft, MD, MHPE, FACS, FAAP.

“It definitely makes it easier for providers [to counsel patients]," says Landon Trost, MD.

“To find a therapy that's all encompassing, that manages all of this in a long-term fashion, low-dose vaginal estrogen is the preferred treatment,” says Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH, FACS, URPS.

"A lot of people are using [single-use ureteroscopes] nowadays, and part of it is because it really enhances our ability to provide guaranteed care, because we don't have to rely on the reusability of scopes," says Perry Xu, MD.

"This study was an investigator initiated study, and what they wanted to do was a randomized trial for large prostates, so 80 to 180 grams, between Aquablation and prostate enucleation," says Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC.

"This is another tool in our armamentarium to treat muscle-invasive bladder cancer and represents an advance compared to where we've been over the past few decades," says Matthew D. Galsky, MD.

"We demonstrate that patients with metastatic disease stayed on therapy longer—a median of 9 months vs 7 months for the non-metastatic patients," says Rana R. McKay, MD, FASCO.

"We have communicated with Solventum, who makes this software, and they have made changes based on our feedback," says Timothy D. Lyon, MD.

"We see the overall survival, whether it is [in] all-comers, in HRR gene mutation-positive patients, or in HRR gene [mutation]-negative patients or [those] who did not have mutations, the overall survival is about 45 to 47 months," says Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FACS.

"I think AI is going to have a significant role. We're just at the tip of the iceberg," says Jason M. Hafron, MD, CMO.

"They are risking their own lives for their job, so it's the part of the whole community to do our best to try to keep them safe," says Sima P. Porten, MD, MPH.

“If it is as efficacious as it looks, we will have more patients who are getting effective standard of care treatment, not needing to go on to further treatment, not having recurrences, [having decreased] morbidity from repeated resections, and saving bladders in the process," says Eugene B. Cone, MD.

"We recognize that an 11% increase in success may not seem that clinically significant, but I think every little bit helps," says Kate H. Kraft, MD, MHPE, FACS, FAAP.

“I always encourage urologists and physicians in general to keep up with the organizations that they're a part of, like the AUA, that often advocate on your behalf," says Ruchika Talwar, MD.

"I say with a lot of confidence, just continue using telehealth as you are," says Chad Ellimoottil, MD, MS.