Urology Times staff

"I think physicians should be willing to seek mental health care. There's a real stigma associated with that, and we have to do something to reduce that," says William Lynes, MD.

“Men do well and they don't have a really high risk of outcomes that we don't want them to have and that patients don't want to have, which is really the need to catheterize,” says David A. Ginsberg, MD.

“Sepsis is real, and it's around 5%. I was surprised too, but this is what the actual data shows, and we should be aware of it,” says Ben H. Chew, MD, MSc.

“It's very clear that PSMA-PET imaging is having…a transformative impact on our ability to image metastatic disease, in that it is much more sensitive than we've had for the last 50 plus years—and also, 98% specific,” says Neil H. Bander, MD.

“I think as our understanding of mutations [and] our understanding the PARP inhibitors [grows], if the data pans out, we'll be using these earlier and earlier in patients, which I think we'll [will allow us to] see probably more benefit,” says Jason M. Hafron, MD.

“The notion that we have to see a patient in front of us every time in order to have a billable encounter is antiquated,” says Gary Kirsh, MD.

“We hope to further investigate next-generation PSMA-targeting molecules, develop new biomarkers to try to predict and monitor response to these novel therapies, optimize combinations with other treatments, and do some discovery research, including artificial intelligence [and] deep learning of our images,” says Michael S. Hofman, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, FAANMS, FICIS.

“In our practices right now, the biggest challenge we have is being acquired by hospital systems,” says R. Jonathan Henderson, MD.

“The future in bladder cancer [and] prostate cancer is really exploding. The therapeutics are coming faster than we ever thought,” says Jason M. Hafron, MD.

“Telehealth really helped salvage some of the care that was deferred during the early part of the pandemic, and it’s really here to stay,” says Chad Ellimoottil, MD, MS.

“What's great about [Jelmyto] is you can avoid a pretty morbid operation in a typically unhealthy older population, and treat them with localized therapy,” says Jason M. Hafron, MD.

“We found that we can move many of our staff offsite and go to remote workforce options,” says Scott Sellinger, MD.

In the first year of the clinic, which was launched by Skyline Urology, 125 patients with cystitis participated in the program, 88% of whom were able to avoid ED visits.

“It's very important that the urologists get involved with germline and somatic testing,” says Jason M. Hafron, MD.

“I'm basically highlighting some of the data that's currently out there, but more importantly, some of the data that [are] just emerging,” says Steven A. Kaplan, MD.

“We expect an outcome from the FDA next year and if that's positive, we expect global, widespread availability of this as a new option for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer,” says Michael S. Hofman, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, FAANMS, FICIS.

“There really are many considerations regarding germline testing, results interpretation, implications for treatment or screening, and the familial hereditary implications of this whole field. Because of that, understanding the role of genetic counseling is critical, and also understanding the interplay with various somatic testing approaches is also really important,” says Veda N. Giri, MD.

“From our standpoint, bigger prostates bleed more…From that, we started taking a different approach for those larger prostates,” says Andrew Higgins, MD.

"We didn't see any clinically significant changes on the prostate gland, which is very important for the urologists who see people who have prostate cancer or prostate enlargement," says Ronald Swerdloff, MD.

“We [at GenesisCare] would be really interested in looking at strategies to identify men that we think are aggressive but localized and offer them a chance to do a shorter course hormonal therapy, which is going to substantially improve quality of life without losing on the efficacy end,” says Bridget F. Koontz, MD.

“Both [IMPRESS trials] would suggest that if patients are motivated to see if they can continue to improve their curvature and avoid things like surgery—which for many patients…is a goal—continuing with the collagenase makes good sense,” says Matthew J. Ziegelmann, MD.

“[Promoting anti-microbial resistance is] really the only stigma and it's not the fault of the patients with recurrent urinary tract infection…most of us in the medical profession realize that this stigma is more the result of our only treatment we have for this condition,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC.

“Currently, there is no role for statins in management of LUTS,” says Jordan J. Kramer, MD.

“Always look at the patient as…a whole and not only [their] testosterone levels,” says Karim Sultan Haider, MD.

"Certainly, the Optilume drug-coated balloon appears to be safe and effective in roughly two-thirds of patients at 3 years," said Justin Chee, MD.

“What's most important [is] that…one dose does not just fit all,” says Martin M. Miner, MD.

"The majority of patients who get onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) don't need to use a catheter at all," says David A. Ginsberg, MD.

“There's been a lot of evidence over the past few years that there's certainly a…correlation between dietary intake and risk of prostate cancer, [but] there's really not a whole lot of data on risk of development of lethal prostate cancer,” says Nima Sharifi, MD.

“There are a number of significant advantages of this new technology, including the maintenance of antegrade ejaculation, the short operative time [and] the exceptional outcomes postoperatively for the patient,” says Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC.

“The RTOG-0815 study [of dose-escalated RT plus androgen suppression] has provided...data to have an intelligent conversation with our patients and provide them numbers so that they know what to expect,” says Bridget F. Koontz, MD.