Urology Times staff

“We wanted to see whether certain variations and these micro-RNA binding sites could be associated with the risk of developing side effects,” says Amar U. Kishan, MD.

“Our goal was to educate these patients thoroughly on the risks and benefits of each of these therapies, and try to understand what guides their choice of third line therapy based on their lifestyle and what suits them,” says Anjali Kapur, MD.

“I think now the government has realized…the work that’s involved in this procedure…[and] we’re now being reimbursed at an appropriate level,” says David M. Albala, MD.

Interesting questions raised by a paper that compared the use of 18F-fluciclovine with 68Ga-PSMA-11 imaging modalities to detect biochemical relapse in prostate cancer and implications for integrating newer techniques into clinical practice.

“To me, the overwhelming thing is understanding that treatments are, by and large, effective,” says Jerry G. Blaivas, MD, FACS.

“I think there is an urgency for us as urologists who are seeing many of these patients with kidney stones to be advocates, not just for the patients whom we're treating today, but for the populations in the future,” says Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.

“The message is to please consider kidney preservation for these patients with TA low-grade disease,” says Seth P. Lerner, MD.

J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC, discusses the origins of saw palmetto as an herbal therapy and how it was developed to treat lower urinary tract symptoms.

“This is an attempt to provide the clinicians with the most recent available data and evidence, and therefore, tell them how this particular imaging…may affect their decision making for the treatment and management of their patients,” says Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD.

In this interview, Anthony Atala, MD, discusses how regenerative medicine and tissue engineering have greatly improved the quality of life for patients who have undergone urologic surgery.

Ulka Nitin Vaishampayan, MBBS, discusses the FGFR inhibitor erdafitinib and the importance of genetic/genomic testing in bladder cancer.

“Gay people have had this history of feeling like the health care system and the structures that are supposed to protect them haven't protected them and kept them safe,” says Channa Amarasekera, MD.

In this interview, Brant A. Inman, MD, MS, FRCSC, discusses how investigational chemothermotherapy could mitigate some challenges presented by current NMIBC treatments.

"These are fairly new technologies, but they've already made a dent into patient care," says Anthony Atala, MD.

“I think this really now suggests that Rezum is a financially viable procedure across these different treatment settings…the reimbursement now is really quite favorable,” says David M. Albala, MD.

“Andrea and I lead this from [a] President/Vice President standpoint, but we also have a group of leaders from around the world, really representing all ethnicities, genders and others, because we wanted to make sure [that] we're inclusive, andmeet the needs and expectations of everybody,” says Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FRCSC, FACS.

“The main question we were interested in answering was what the impact of future climate under different scenarios of climate change would have on the incidence of kidney stone disease, using South Carolina as a model state,” says Jason Kaufman.

“The urologist's role is to try to normalize what is going on and provide easier access,” says Peter N. Schlegel, MD.

“I think that these data firmly establish UGN-101, or Jelmyto, as a bona fide treatment option for kidney preservation for patients with low-grade, non-invasive urothelial cancer in the upper urinary tract,” says Seth P. Lerner, MD.

“PSMA is a very exciting development in the field of nuclear medicine,” says Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD.

Reactions to key findings from an article by Birgit Pernthaler, et al, that compared the use of 18F-fluciclovine with 68Ga-PSMA-11 imaging modalities to detect biochemical relapse in prostate cancer.

From a rambunctious kitten to a whole family of animals, we have some great guests on the latest episode of Uranimals, a video series featuring urologists and their pets.

“There is a rather extensive process of how to develop appropriate use criteria. It is primarily based on literature and evidence, systematic reviews, and analysis of those data,” says Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD.

“Of the 42 patients who achieved a complete response, 41 of those were evaluable for duration of response, which was the focus of the manuscript that was just published last month,” says Seth P. Lerner, MD.

Drs Steven Finkelstein and Louis J. Mazzarelli highlight data revealed in the article “A Prospective Head-to-Head Comparison of 18F-Fluciclovine With 68Ga-PSMA-11 in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in PET/CT,” by Birgit Pernthaler, et al.

In this installment of the Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, Melissa R. Kaufman, MD, PhD, FACS, discusses the innovative use of stem cell–derived treatments in urologic conditions such as stress urinary incontinence.

"The newest frontier of therapy for stress incontinence is regenerative medicine and stem cell–based therapies," says Melissa R. Kaufman, MD, PhD, FACS.

“It's really become the epicenter of all the surgeries that we do in urology,” says Jennifer Linehan, MD.

Eric Jonasch, MD, offers his advice for physicians treating patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Ali Raza Khaki, MD, discusses managing toxicities to ensure patients can continue to receive treatment with the antibody-drug conjugate enfortumab vedotin.