Francesca Jackson-Spence, MRCP, on efficacy of savolitinib/durvalumab in papillary renal cancer
February 16th 2025“Interestingly, the confirmed response rate in the intention to treat population was 32%, but this increases to 53% in the MET driven subset,” says Francesca Jackson-Spence, MBChB, BMedSc, MRCP.
Channing J. Paller, MD, on communicating about natural products with patients with prostate cancer
February 9th 2025"We need to promote further research and guidelines for safe use of these natural products, because I think we're missing out if we don't monitor them," says Channing J. Paller, MD.
Fertility restoration may offer benefits in cost, efficacy vs sperm cryopreservation
February 5th 2025“While sperm cryopreservation is very safe, there might be hidden costs that patients aren't aware of, both [in] the upfront costs of preserving the sperm and then the annual cost of maintaining it at a facility,” says Bradley Roth, MS4.
Matthew Cooperberg, MD, on racial disparities in prostate, bladder cancer outcomes
February 4th 2025“Black patients have over 2-fold excess mortality compared to White men, and that has been fairly consistent; the actual rate ratio has hovered between 2 and 2.5 for many years,” says Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPH.
What are considerations when selecting a neuromodulation technique for OAB?
February 2nd 2025"There are actually no data to support that 1 neuromodulation is better than another based on disease severity, and this is based on the systematic review done for the OAB guideline," says Anne Pelletier Cameron, MD, FRCSC, FPMRS.
Matthew Cooperberg, MD, reacts to 2025 ACS prostate cancer data
January 31st 2025“It does seem clear that we need to get back to a smarter middle ground of screening—using screening more intelligently, finding the high-grade cancers and treating them—so that we can get that mortality curve back on a downward trajectory,” says Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPH.
Investigators discuss cost-effectiveness study of cryopreservation vs vasectomy reversal
January 30th 2025"The idea here is to determine, from an epidemiologic perspective, whether freezing sperm for many men before their vasectomy is cost-effective compared to whether we should simply avoid this routine practice and allow men to proceed with their vasectomy and then restore their fertility in the future," says Scott D. Lundy, MD, PhD, HCLD.