Study set to explore the impact of peer-support for patients undergoing gender-affirming surgery
July 21st 2023"Extra support from trusted peers can help make navigating complex health care systems easier for transgender patients, who often have to wait years before receiving gender-affirming genital surgery—while also managing the stress and trauma associated with being part of a society that often doesn’t accept non-conforming gender expression,” says Geolani Dy, MD, FACS
Oral chemotherapy shows initial promise in treatment-resistant prostate cancer
July 14th 2023"The beauty is, now we can deliver a cisplatin-based chemotherapeutic orally, which is usually never done. And by targeting the prostate, we can reduce kidney and liver toxicity and the risk of peripheral neuropathy," says Shanta Dhar, PhD.
Dr. Peters highlights additional research on the effect of the Dobbs ruling on urologists
July 12th 2023"We did an additional study where we surveyed all of the medical students who applied to urology this year... 1 in 5 applicants took programs off their list because they were located in states where abortion is illegal," says Chloe E. Peters, MD.
Flotufolastat F 18 scans show high degree of inter- and intra-reader agreement in prostate cancer
July 3rd 2023"The high reproducibility of reader results across all regions is clinically valuable, with the potential to influence patient management prior to surgery for patients with newly diagnosed disease," says Phillip H. Kuo, MD, PhD.
Timing between 177Lu-PSMA doses shows no impact on survival in patients with mCRPC
June 30th 2023"Personalized dosing allowed one-third of the men in this study to have treatment breaks while still achieving the same progression-free and overall survival outcomes they would have if they received continuous treatment," says Andrew Nguyen, MBBS, FRACP, AANMS.
Diagnostics company opens new facility to scale up production of IsoPSA test for prostate cancer
June 29th 2023The new space includes a clinical laboratory for IsoPSA testing, labs for research and development, offices, and manufacturing spaces for production and distribution of in vitro diagnostic kits.
Advanced practice providers show increasing role in urology
June 27th 2023"The integration of APPs in urologic practice could play a critical role in addressing the current urologist shortages, [issues with] access, and delivery of urological care across United States," says Omer Raheem, MD, MSc, MCh Urol, MCRSI.
Multiparametric MRI demonstrates poor sensitivity in staging for prostate cancer
June 26th 2023“Our results support the notion that mpMRI is an inadequate screening tool for locally advanced [prostate cancer] and should not be used as the sole means of presurgical [prostate cancer] staging," wrote the authors.
Bladder-sparing treatments show noninferior OS vs radical cystectomy in BCG-unresponsive NMIBC
June 19th 2023“Our results suggest that bladder-sparing treatments may be a safe approach in selected patients. Survival outcomes were not inferior compared to early radical cystectomy," says Wei Shen Tan, MD.