Urology Times staff

"I think it's a really nice synergy between the 2 technologies," says Wayne G. Brisbane, MD.

"When we looked at the same phenotypic data, but focusing on each immunochemistry protein markers, we had 10 patients with AR negative tumor with clearly worse prognosis, and synaptophysin-positive and chromogranin A-positive patients also had a worse prognosis," says Cedric Pobel, MD.

"At the University of Michigan, we've actually started to offer prostate MRI without contrast for patients on active surveillance, which has been a really exciting change," says Benjamin Pockros, MD, MBA.

"The radiologist more than ever has to be part of the care team," says Phillip H. Kuo, MD, PhD, FACR.

"I would say the take-home message is that we found that from a patient-centered orientation, telehealth for new and established patients have comparably high satisfaction scores but provide substantially lower costs compared with in-person visits for patients with urologic cancer," says Daniel Carson, MD, MS.

"Patient-reported satisfaction scores were high for both telehealth and inpatient visits for both new and established encounters," says Daniel Carson, MD, MS.

"As we expected, the MRIs with contrast were far more expensive," says Benjamin Pockros, MD, MBA.

“If you haven't used HYDROS before, or if you're concerned about doing bigger glands or tackling more difficult cases, I think we've shown in our first 35-40,000 cases that Aquablation, the therapy, is a valid therapy,” says Lewis S. Kriteman, MD, FACS.

"The idea is to keep improving these devices," says Ana Lidia Flores-Mireles, PhD.

"One of the things I think that's really interesting is we're seeing the development of a lot of AI predictive models of who might progress to urosepsis and who might be at higher risk for progression of their infection to have greater health consequences," says A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD.

"Of those that met the primary end point, they remained free of progression at a median of 31 months and counting," says Nicholas G. Nickols, MD, PhD.

"The evolution is continuing, now with a decade of human use of Aquablation, we can now take this to a same-day procedure––discharge the same calendar day," says Kevin C. Zorn, MD, FRCSC, FACS.

In this episode, Robert E. Brannigan, MD, and Juan J. Andino, MD, MBA, discuss the recent amendment to the AUA/ASRM guideline on male infertility.

"[One] of the things that makes the technology really interesting, in my mind, for CVAC, is that it's not just a suction device," says Thomas Chi, MD, MBA.

“What probably should be happening is that we should be reserving these antibiotics only for those situations in which someone has a multi-drug-resistant infection for which there are options that are not available otherwise,” says A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD.

"[Although] we were very excited about the finding in this study showing that Unfold AI could be superior to MRI in detecting extracapsular disease, our next step is to validate this in a multi-institutional, prospective manner," says Shyam Natarjan, PhD.

"From a revenue, profit and loss perspective, actually, in many instances, they anticipate that physicians may actually make more money using the second-generation CVAC device compared to traditional ureteroscopy, depending on your payer mix and your practice," says Thomas Chi, MD, MBA.

"But for physicians considering chemotherapy for which there is equipoise, the Decipher test could be used to swing the decision one way or the other," says Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD, FRCP.

The TiNivo-2 trial demonstrated that rechallenging ICI therapy does not improve outcomes in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

“We already have very effective ARPIs available around the world, and this will add to those therapeutic options to try to tailor patients based on their needs [and] their particular profiles,” says Fred Saad, MD, FRCS.

“I think that these data in this approximately 700 patient trial consolidates and makes a strong case for the role of pembrolizumab in the adjuvant setting,” says Guru P. Sonpavde, MD.

“Today, we're presenting the results of this analysis, and we show that patients who have a high Decipher score derive significant benefit from docetaxel,” says Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD, FRCP.

"It clearly shows that blocking HIF-2α is a meaningful way of interacting with disease biology in clear cell renal cell carcinoma," says Eric Jonasch, MD.

“[We’re] trying to anticipate with a smartwatch some of the catastrophic blood pressure changes and things that happen in these patients,” says Matthew J. Mellon, MD, FACS.

Thomas Chi, MD, MBA, discusses advantages to the CVAC System.

"I think it's going to help younger or less experienced urologists get more proficient at this procedure faster. That's where the AI is going to come into play," says Lewis S. Kriteman, MD, FACS.

“In the period where a patient receives a diagnosis of favorable intermediate-risk cancer or higher and doesn't know what to do, there is a big unmet need/gap that we aim to serve with Unfold AI,” says Shyam Natarajan, PhD.

“I think that there will probably be much more accessible tools within the next 5 years, and almost certainly within the next 10 years,” says Yair Lotan, MD.

"It's really upon us, as the medical community, to be better about not just antibiotic stewardship, but also diagnostic stewardship," says A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD.

"That's probably the biggest thing that I would say to somebody who's interested in urology is, do you think you can get on another patient's level?" says Emily Sopko, CNP.