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The American Society of Clinical Oncology has issued a guideline for the use of serum markers in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of germ cell tumors in men, most commonly testicular cancer.

A significant reduction in imaging use is apparent when urologists evaluate radiologist recommendations and then direct follow-up imaging, according to a recent study.

A urine test that is under development appears to show significant specificity when used to detect prostate cancer, according to a multi-institution study from researchers in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia presented at the AUA annual meeting in San Francisco.

Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, has appointed Norm Smith, MD, to the position of chief of urology.

The FDA has approved GE Healthcare?s Cysview (hexaminolevulinate hydrochloride) for the detection of nonmuscle-invasive papillary cancer of the bladder in patients with known or suspected bladder cancer.

A 17-year-long community study looking at symptoms of BPH in more than 2,000 men aged 40 to 79 years suggests that surgery offers more relief from incontinence and symptoms of obstruction than treatment from drug-based therapy.

Continuous androgen deprivation plus external beam radiation therapy should be the standard treatment approach for men with locally advanced prostate cancer, researchers reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago.

Richard D. Williams, MD, Rubin H. Flocks Professor and former chair of the University of Iowa department of urology, died May 28, 2010, at his home in Iowa City. He was 65.

Urologists work with their patients to find out why they're not taking their meds.

Sexual side effects resulted in more withdrawals from dutaseride therapy compared to finasteride.

With the IRA generally representing most physicians' largest financial asset, it only makes sense to ensure that retirement account beneficiary decisions are carefully made.

Most biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy occurs within 10 years, and patients who remain free from progression a decade postoperatively can be counseled that their risk of subsequent cancer-related morbidity and mortality is low.

A simple, one-item questionnaire is easy to administer, correlates with other widely used subjective and objective measures, and can be used as an outcome measure to evaluate surgery for stress urinary incontinence.

New products and services from Ethicon, MeridianEMR, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, and ALOKA Co., Ltd.

Health care reform is what it is, and we have to learn to live with it for now and the foreseeable future. Currently, it is the law of the land.

Perioperative urine cultures yield a high number of false-negative and false-positive results and do not accurately identify infective organisms in a large percentage of percutaneous nephrolithotomy patients.

Urology Times found urologists who place themselves in each of the camps on health care reform, but perhaps the largest group wishes someone could explain what the legislation actually means for them.

Along with their ability to standardize and improve record keeping and communication, EHRs also have medicolegal implications, both benefits and possible drawbacks.

Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome is a complex, heterogeneous syndrome in terms of etiology and symptoms, making its treatment difficult. Thus, a first step to improved management of these conditions is to better classify and stratify patients.

A single injection of a bacterial protoxin can reduce lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to BPH and improve quality of life.

In the Internet Age, it's all about making sure that Google ranks you on page one in position one.

Hopefully, "hormonal downsizing" (UT, April 2010, pg. 4) is the only reason that any patient would receive ADT prior to RT for low-risk disease.

When it comes to etiology and treatment of chronic pelvic pain, one size doesn't fit all.

There's lot to think about when it comes to adopting an electronic health record system.

Men with moderate to severe lower urinary tract symptoms who were treated with botulinum toxin A injection found their symptoms markedly improved.

In the minority of patients who experience postoperative urinary incontinence following photoselective vaporization of the prostate for BPH, the more severe symptoms are associated with age and preoperative prostate size.

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is considered the gold standard for the removal of large renal stones. Until recently, however, the procedure's efficacy had not been verified by a clinical study as large as a gold-standard procedure would seem to require.

A new study indicates that existing evidence is insufficient to show that most of the tort reforms sought-with the exception of caps on noneconomic damages-would be effective in reducing malpractice claims frequency and costs and defensive medicine, or improving the supply of health care services and quality of care.

Conflicting data on fascial defect size and port fixity render any perception of surgical advantage per port type as theoretical. Thus, regarding this aspect, the decision to use bladed or non-bladed trocars is likely best left to surgeon preference.