Hand-assisted laparoscopy safe for difficult RCC cases
Genoa, Italy-Hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy appears to be safe and feasible for treating large renal tumors, report researchers from the University of Miami, FL. Separately, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University say the hand-assisted approach is possible in patients with renal cell carcinoma with tumor thrombus.
Amy Pearlman, MD, and Wendy Brant discuss building a digital audience, navigating sexual health content online, and the role of communication in relationships.
Sandip Prasad, MD, discusses patient selection for chemoablation in recurrent LG-IR-NMIBC and considerations when counseling patients about a nonsurgical approach.
In a head-to-head RCT, Rezūm produced a 4.6-point greater IPSS improvement than combination pharmacotherapy at 1 year, according to Jean-Nicolas Cornu, MD, PhD, FEBU.
Enfortumab vedotin-ejfv (Padcev) plus pembrolizumab (Keytruda) showed the strongest EFS, OS, and PCR associations among neoadjuvant MIBC strategies in a network meta-analysis, although perioperative design limits attribution.