Talia Helman, MD, on sexual quality of life in female patients with bladder cancer
October 23rd 2024“After doing a literature review about cystectomy patients and how devastating it is for female sexual function after having a cystectomy, [my main takeaway from this study is that] it seems that women tolerate the intravesical treatments well,” says Talia A. Helman, MD.
Gary Steinberg, MD, on the mechanism of action for bel-sar in NMIBC
October 21st 2024"You've got a double pronged attack to kill cancer cells, which is in line with our concepts of immunologic care and immunologic treatment in a variety of cancers, especially cancers such as bladder cancer," says Gary D. Steinberg, MD.
Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH, on inclusive leadership in sexual medicine
October 19th 2024"We're also dealing with some cultural biases, and we have to be mindful [of] how do people like to discuss sexual medicine, and how does that impact our patient interactions?" says Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH.
Marcelino Rivera, MD, on potential future advancements in stone disease, BPH
October 11th 2024“So, we have all of this new technology that's about a year old, making surgery a lot safer for patients, making things more efficient, and [giving us] the ability to see stone removal happening from a perspective where we can visualize stone clearance in a way that we haven't been able to before,” says Marcelino E. Rivera, MD.
Mihir Shah, MD, on the need for mental health screening in patients with prostate cancer
October 10th 2024“We need to close that gap, and just as a general rule, screen our prostate cancer patients more closely for depression, especially those with androgen deprivation therapy,” says Mihir S. Shah, MD.
Mihir Shah, MD, on racial disparities in depression among patients on ADT
October 8th 2024“We noticed that if you were White and had prostate cancer and received androgen deprivation therapy, you were more likely to be diagnosed with depression compared to your Black counterparts,” says Mihir S. Shah, MD.
Cedric Pobel, MD: Phenotypic and genomic analyses from PEACE-1 in de novo mCSPC
October 6th 2024"When we looked at the same phenotypic data, but focusing on each immunochemistry protein markers, we had 10 patients with AR negative tumor with clearly worse prognosis, and synaptophysin-positive and chromogranin A-positive patients also had a worse prognosis," says Cedric Pobel, MD.
Implications of research on cost-effectiveness of prostate MRI without contrast
October 5th 2024"At the University of Michigan, we've actually started to offer prostate MRI without contrast for patients on active surveillance, which has been a really exciting change," says Benjamin Pockros, MD, MBA.
Investigators evaluate patient preferences on in-person vs telehealth urology visits
October 4th 2024"I would say the take-home message is that we found that from a patient-centered orientation, telehealth for new and established patients have comparably high satisfaction scores but provide substantially lower costs compared with in-person visits for patients with urologic cancer," says Daniel Carson, MD, MS.