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“There is a whole range of ways in which urologists are involved in gender-affirming care,” says Geolani Dy, MD.

“The most notable finding unquestionably was that peripheral nerve blocks have the ability to significantly reduce opioid requirements without compromising any pain control,” says Jared S. Winoker, MD.

“We will also cover options for germline testing—different ways that tests can be ordered, panel options that are available commercially,” says Veda N. Giri, MD.

“While this study does offer a lot of promise for the treatment options that we can offer to these patients, it does also highlight the need for further prospective trials to evaluate the efficacy of this treatment, as well as the treatments of all the different surgical options available to patients who are suffering from BPH,” says Evan Garden.

“It is a promising drug in terms of the 3-month complete response rate,” says Chad Ritch, MD, MBA, FACS.

“I would say what RTOG-0815 has provided is data to have an intelligent conversation with our patients and provide them numbers so that they know what to expect,” says Bridget F. Koontz, MD.

“I think the key elements are that you should know about Aquablation if you are treating BPH in consideration for your patients and care, especially those who are looking for a more durable response and to maintain their ejaculation,” says Kevin Zorn, MD, FRCSC, FACS.

“New things are being developed and, I believe, at the moment showing great initiative and resolve,” says Justin Chee, MD.

“We need better tests and better biomarkers to try to determine who still has residual cancer, even though they look like they don't,” says Christopher B. Anderson, MD, MPH.

“Our preclinical therapy models all show us that the combination of the 2 agents [alpha and beta particles] is substantially superior to either agent alone,” says Neil H. Bander, MD.

“Thirteen percent of all doctors have suicidal ideation, and more than [400 physicians per year] will complete suicide. That is a tragedy of medicine,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

“I believe that at every stage, it's very important that we focus on healthful lifestyle behaviors because we can improve [urologic patients’] overall survival and their cardiovascular health,” says Stacy Loeb, MD, PhD, MSc.

“Compared to other BPH treatments, this is a very fast, reproducible technology that could democratize how all urologists do BPH surgery,” says Kevin Zorn, MD, FRCSC, FACS.

“It was black, it was overwhelming, it was every day,” says William Lynes, MD.

“Completing those 4 injection cycles is likely to yield the best clinical outcomes for most of our patients,” says Matthew J. Ziegelmann, MD.

“Men do well and they don't have a really high risk of outcomes that we don't want them to have and that patients don't want to have, which is really the need to catheterize,” says David A. Ginsberg, MD.

“Sepsis is real, and it's around 5%. I was surprised too, but this is what the actual data shows, and we should be aware of it,” says Ben H. Chew, MD, MSc.

“It's very clear that PSMA-PET imaging is having…a transformative impact on our ability to image metastatic disease, in that it is much more sensitive than we've had for the last 50 plus years—and also, 98% specific,” says Neil H. Bander, MD.

“We hope to further investigate next-generation PSMA-targeting molecules, develop new biomarkers to try to predict and monitor response to these novel therapies, optimize combinations with other treatments, and do some discovery research, including artificial intelligence [and] deep learning of our images,” says Michael S. Hofman, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, FAANMS, FICIS.

“We expect an outcome from the FDA next year and if that's positive, we expect global, widespread availability of this as a new option for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer,” says Michael S. Hofman, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, FAANMS, FICIS.

“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.