“There really are many considerations regarding germline testing, results interpretation, implications for treatment or screening, and the familial hereditary implications of this whole field. Because of that, understanding the role of genetic counseling is critical, and also understanding the interplay with various somatic testing approaches is also really important,” says Veda N. Giri, MD.
“From our standpoint, bigger prostates bleed more…From that, we started taking a different approach for those larger prostates,” says Andrew Higgins, MD.
“We [at GenesisCare] would be really interested in looking at strategies to identify men that we think are aggressive but localized and offer them a chance to do a shorter course hormonal therapy, which is going to substantially improve quality of life without losing on the efficacy end,” says Bridget F. Koontz, MD.
"Certainly, the Optilume drug-coated balloon appears to be safe and effective in roughly two-thirds of patients at 3 years," said Justin Chee, MD.
“There's been a lot of evidence over the past few years that there's certainly a…correlation between dietary intake and risk of prostate cancer, [but] there's really not a whole lot of data on risk of development of lethal prostate cancer,” says Nima Sharifi, MD.
"If you look at men who had sexual dysfunction at the beginning of the study, compared to men that had good sexual function at the beginning of a study, both groups of men have equal response to improvement in their lower urinary tract symptoms,” says Kevin T. McVary, MD, FACS.
“The idea that Aquablation [treats] any size and any shape of prostate really does seem to hold true for these cohorts of patients,” says Dean Elterman, MD, MSc, FRCSC.
“We were surprised to see that the majority of subjects in these simulations had testosterone levels within eugonadal range for all 3 dose's studies,” says Jay Newmark, MD, MBA.
“I would encourage other people to think about their own routines in the operating room, in the clinic, going to conferences, hosting conferences, doing interviews, and where each one of us could even slightly cut back,” says Stacy Loeb, MD, PhD, MSc.
“What our studies were looking at was a novel device that could potentially help bridge the gap between [endoscopic treatment and urethroplasty] to achieve endoscopic treatment and achieve greater success,” says Justin Chee, MD.
“Doing this study allows us to say, 'With repeat treatments, we're not seeing a greater risk of retention, and we're not seeing a greater risk of UTI,'" says David A. Ginsberg, MD.
“I think that a lot of the best practices that the surgeons had developed and honed were really excellent communication skills, and…building a trusting physician-patient relationship, where they truly provided an informed consent of all the risks, all the benefits, [and] all the alternatives,” says Una Lee, MD, FPMRS.
“[Attendees] will be learning multiple aspects in terms of the genetic evaluation for men with prostate cancer,” says Veda N. Giri, MD.
Welcome to another installment of Uranimals, a video series featuring urologists and their pets, brought to you by urology times. From a snuggling cat companion to an Australian parakeet, we have some more great guests for you!
“The main advantages with regard to the Zenflow Spring System are that there's no piercing, there's no trauma, and there's no heat involved with the treatment,” says Peter Chin, MD.
“Bottom line, there's really no way to separate all of the things that we do, but I think we can all be more conscious on a day-to-day basis in terms of our own environmental footprint and just making better choices,” says Stacy Loeb, MD, PhD, MSc.
By identifying trends in race and ethnicity of academic urologists, this study poses as an opportunity for future intervention.
“Ideally…we have a technology that's noninvasive that we can use in the clinic, where they don't require any anesthesia to…break the stones and make them smaller,” says Mathew D. Sorensen, MD, MS, FACS.
“Clearly, we are now in that era of TKIs in addition to checkpoint inhibitors, and so…it makes logical sense from the place we're at [in] the moment in renal cancer treatment with those combinations of treatment,” says Grant Stewart, MD.
“The data…showed us that a lot of young [men]…are coming in for ED, and we can't really think of it as just a disease of older men…It can affect you at any age,” says Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH.
“This study was very important in that it showed cost savings with MOSES as well as the ability to reliably achieve same-day discharge,” says Matthew S. Lee, MD.
“I think the surgeon voice is an important voice to be heard because there's not a lot of avenues for surgeons to be able to be honest and share all the things they've learned and all the things they've experienced with their patients,” says Una Lee, MD, FPMRS.
“In short, there's a ton of missed opportunity to see how smoking affects treatments, especially in trial patients, and even in our patients that are in our clinics,” says Richard Matulewicz, MD, MS.
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.
“One of the study findings that really stood out to me was that so many of the surgeons that we spoke to are…such strong advocates for their patients,” says Wai Lee, MD.
“Even factoring in the increased number of emergency room visits, there was still an overall cost savings of $747 in favor of the Moses HoLEP. So, that was surprising to see,” says Matthew S. Lee, MD.
"The focus of this study and the patient cohort that we're looking at are patients with intermediate-risk bladder cancer who [also have] low-grade bladder cancer. These patients [typically have] a lot of recurrences [and] multi-focal disease but are at low risk of progressing on to metastatic disease or developing invasion into their bladder wall,” says William C. Huang, MD.
“The world's a very, very small place and there are a lot of people who are hurting. It's our job as physicians to help relieve that discomfort, wherever it may exist, whether it's here in the United States or elsewhere, and this is the device that allows that to be realized,” says Ralph V. Clayman, MD.
“The concept behind the NAXIVA trial was to treat these patients with pre-surgical neoadjuvant targeted therapy with a means of downstaging that venous tumor thrombus, reducing the extent of it to try and make the surgery less morbid to the patient and to potentially improve survival,” says Grant Stewart, MD.
“It is a vaccine that is self-administered by the patient sublingual over 3 months, and that is why it appears to be so safe,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD.
