A panelist discusses how identifying intermediate-risk patients, managing disease heterogeneity in non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer, and addressing long-term care needs present key challenges in patient care while highlighting recent treatment advances that offer promising solutions.
Dr. De La Cerda provides an overview of a patient case involving a 68 year-old male presenting with severe back pain, with an analysis of the clinical presentation, workup, and medical history.
“I think there's a lot to be done and combination therapies, other drugs that can be instilled into this device. It's a bright future,” says Siamak Daneshmand, MD.
"We're trying to be the coach to our patients," says Wayne Kuang, MD.
“In some ways, it can be used to help if you want to get a biopsy to prove or confirm—it can be used to help detect in that range, too,” says Michael S. Cookson, MD, MMHC, FACS.
“In that randomized trial, we have level 1 evidence showing that patients have less pain and faster return of bowel function when you work at low pressure,” says Ronney Abaza, MD.
"There are only 2 major organs you can't transplant: the brain and the bladder. So let's take care of the bladder," says Wayne Kuang, MD.
“Some of the main implications for urologists is that the risk adapted utilization of BCG, which has been implemented as guidelines, should continue,” says Madison M. Wahlen.
A panelist discusses how Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) treatment varies by risk stratification (low, intermediate, and high-risk), with BCG immunotherapy being standard for high-risk patients, while newer options like pembrolizumab and gene therapies are emerging for BCG-unresponsive cases, and treatment decisions between intravesical versus systemic therapy depend on risk level and previous treatment response.
“The other aspects of the waivers and the things that remain in flux and are not fully fleshed out are going to be things like interstate telehealth,” says Juan J. Andino, MD, MBA.
"What's unique about our conference is the focus is not on just showcasing what our institute has to offer; the real focus is on networking and collaborating with the top institutes in the nation," says Raveen Syan, MD, FPMRS.
"The main benefit, I guess, for Aquablation over TURP, is the fact that the sexual side effects are much better when compared to TURP," says Mohamad Baker Berjaoui, MD.
“We really want to understand whether by using this beta emitter, together with the combination of cabazantinib and the nivolumab, we're getting better outcomes than we would expect with the doublet alone,” says Eric Jonasch, MD.
Chad Ellimoottil, MD, MS, details specific concerns surrounding the future of telehealth as Congress weighs the decision to extend flexibilities.
“What we've been working on is a giant 30,000 patient database study using the National Cancer Database to see exactly what the rates are of upstaging and downstaging for these larger kidney tumors,” says Taylor Goodstein, MD.
Panelists discuss how the management of nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer with biochemical recurrence involves careful monitoring and the potential use of novel therapies, such as androgen receptor inhibitors, to delay progression and improve patient outcomes.
Katie S. Murray, DO, emphasizes the importance of administering newer treatments for BCG-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) locally by urologists, which helps reduce the overall burden on patients, minimizes systemic adverse effects, and eliminates the need for travel to specialized oncology centers, while also recommending strategies to encourage health care providers to adopt these treatments, including education on clinical trial data and real-world efficacy.
“Without the ability to do new patient telehealth, by definition, it's really hard to impact access to care,” says Juan J. Andino, MD, MBA.
"We found that patients whose care was impacted by shortages did not have statistically significantly worse recurrence outcomes compared to patients whose care was not impacted by shortages," says Madison M. Wahlen.
"We found that with a 5-year Kaplan-Meier survival analysis that patients with varicocele had worse outcomes than patients without varicocele," says Muhammed A. Moukhtar Hammad, MBBCh.
“It's very rare that a patient has to stay in the hospital overnight after a robotic surgery as long as they're getting a good quality operation,” says Ronney Abaza, MD, FACS.
"I think that there's been a lot of positive momentum to continue coverage for telehealth without geographic restrictions, to continue coverage for phone calls, but there's still some uncertainty as to whether or not that's going to be passed, even though there is a lot of optimism for it," says Chad Ellimoottil, MD, MS.
“It encompasses and contains the miTNM, PROMISE, PRIMARY, RECIP, PSMA-RADS, and E-PSMA concept and criteria all together,” says Jeremie Calais, MD, PhD.
"What's important here is that there's an increased public interest in this vaginal estrogen therapy," says Elia Abou Chawareb, MD.
“With the Expanded Access Program, it is an opportunity for patients to receive the drug in real-world practice,” says Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MSc.
"Overall, our trial shows promising early oncological efficacy with a favorable toxicity profile," says Gal Wald, MD.
“I think having the ability to monitor patients with imaging and using things like PSMA-PET is good, but yet we're we sometimes have pitfalls with PSMA-PET too,” says Michael Cookson, MD.
"I think the precision of Aquablation helps significantly with improving the results," says Mohamad Baker Berjaoui, MD.
Experts discuss overactive bladder and the impacts on quality of life, distinguishing OAB from BPH, and how a delayed diagnosis can worsen symptoms.
