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Treatment with stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy resulted in no observed local failures or cancer-related deaths among patients with primary renal cell cancer.

The company plans to announce full market availability of the RenaFlex ureteroscope system at a later date.

“The UroLift 2 ATC is designed to deliver the same proven effectiveness of the UroLift System, with significant enhancements on a unified UroLift 2 platform,” says Brian Wilkins.

Acceptance of the IND application would initiate a first-in-human phase 1 dose expansion and escalation trial of CTIM-76 in patients with testicular and gynecologic cancers.

“The MODERN trial represents a step towards precision medicine in bladder cancer treatment," says Matthew D. Galsky, MD.

"We really aimed to affect 3 different contraindications and instead achieved retirement of the entire policy, which, we think, really opens up this wonderful technology to literally hundreds of thousands more patients across the country," says Arpeet Shah, MD.

The novel agent ABSK061 approached a response rate of 40% in patients with advanced solid tumors harboring FGFR2/3 alterations.

“The take-home message is: Don’t assume bad things if the tumor is growing during chemotherapy," says Andrew M. Davidoff, MD.

"At age 73, you must start taking distributions from the account in the form of required minimum distributions (RMDs), which are typically taxable. This means you must include the RMD in your income and pay income tax on the distributed amount," writes Jeff Witz, CFP.

"Our study showed that regardless of race, BLC increases the detection of bladder cancer when combined with WLC," says Sia Daneshmand, MD.

The sBLA is supported by findings from the phase 3 EV-302 trial, which showed that EV/pembrolizumab extended overall survival and progression-free survival vs platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.

“This data should bolster physicians’ confidence in recommending active surveillance for their patients when it is an appropriate option," says Timothy J. Daskivich, MD.

"Good public and economic policy must align costs, benefits, and incentives; currently, all costs are incurred by physician practices, and all financial savings and benefits from prior authorization accrue to health insurance plans, leading to perverse incentives,” says Alex Shteynshlyuger, MD.

The AssureMDx test demonstrated an area under the curve of 0.80 in detecting urinary tract recurrences in MIBC.

“These results are encouraging and suggest that circulating biomarkers may be useful in guiding the use of radium-223 therapy,” says David T. Miyamoto, MD, PhD.

In the intervention group, the HRQOL score changed by 23.9 points between baseline and week 13, from 18.4 to 29.5.

Overall, participating pathologists felt that there is potential to increase diagnostic efficiency by using Galen Prostate in a clinical setting.

Treatment with SBRT showed a minimal effect on prostate cancer-specific HRQL measures in regard to urinary incontinence domain scores, urinary irritative/obstructive domain scores, and bowel domain scores.

Tepidimonas was notably associated with more severe urinary incontinence episodes, suggesting a potential marker for identifying individuals at risk for more severe symptoms.

With the dosing of the first patient in Italy, Telix’s expanded access program for TLX250-CDx in ccRCC now includes 3 active countries, including the Netherlands and the US.

ADV7103 is currently being studied in the phase 2/3 CORAL-1 study, enrolling patients with cystinuria across centers in France and Belgium.

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"The implications for urology, and every specialty, are immense. It does improve care, and it helps the patient. I think this is what it will be, it just may take some time," says Vipul Patel, MD.

"Indeed, HSD3B1 appears to be the most common monogenic driver of prostate cancer mortality,” says Nima Sharifi, MD.

Astellas expects a decision on EU marketing authorization of enzalutamide in nmHSPC by June 2024.

"Per CPT coding instructions, when procedures or services performed by physicians do not have a valid or descriptive CPT or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code, the service should be reported using an unlisted code," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

In this episode of Speaking of Urology®, Eugene Rhee, MD, MBA, and Logan Galansky, MD, discuss key topics in health policy and recap the AUA's recent Annual Urology Advocacy Summit.

"We suspect that 340B hospitals potentially have some resources or mechanisms that are helping these vulnerable patients maintain adherence,” says Kassem S. Faraj, MD.

“What is becoming increasingly evident is that the traditional health care model is falling short for patients in rural regions,” says Ramy Abou Ghayda, MD, MPH, MBA candidate.

"The ProVee System has the potential to be a first-line interventional therapy for BPH that can be safely and reliably performed in the office setting," says Steven A. Kaplan, MD.