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"The study demonstrated that AS rate in the MUSIC cohort, which in 2014 had been lower than in the SEER cohort, increased rapidly, from approximately 20% in 2014 to nearly 50% in 2019, whereas the SEER cohort showed only a modest increase," writes Badar M. Mian, MD.

The CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib showed clinically activity in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The addition of STAD did, however, improve secondary end points, including metastases rates, prostate cancer-specific mortality, and PSA failure.

Illuccix is approved by Health Canada for imaging in patients with suspected metastasis who are candidates for initial definitive therapy, or in patients with suspected recurrence based on an elevated PSA level.

The methylation-based urine test is performed on a qPCR platform and is intended for use in conjunction with cystoscopy.

"The most important thing for transgender women and their health care providers to remember is that prostate cancer screening shouldn’t be neglected," said Stephen J. Freedland, MD.

Treatment with the Optilume BPH System resulted in significant, immediate symptomatic and functional improvements in patients with BPH, according to 12-month data from the PINNACLE study.

Among medical groups, 65% said they will employ advanced practice providers in 2023.

“The ARAMIS Rollover Study extended the duration of darolutamide treatment and demonstrated the long-term safety of darolutamide in patients with [nonmetastatic CRPC],” said Neal D. Shore, MD.

Preliminary findings from the single-arm, phase 2 CORE-001 trial showed that the combination of the oncolytic immunotherapy cretostimogene grenadenorepvec (CG0070) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) elicited a high complete response rate in patients with BCG–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

“The combination of sintilimab and axitinib had a manageable safety profile and achieved a promising tumor response rate in patient with advanced FH-deficient RCC,” said Xingming Zhang.

Data from the retrospective DEAR study linked darolutamide to lower rates of discontinuation and progression to metastatic disease vs enzalutamide and apalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

“The results of the study imply that UGN-101 is not only a renal-preserving therapy for UTUC in this comorbid population, but could potentially delay the time to dialysis or radical nephroureterectomy," says Kyle M. Rose, MD.

The indication is restricted from the indication in the FDA supplemental New Drug Application for olaparib/abiraterone, which is for the population at-large in the BRCA–mutation positive setting.

"At our institution, we used a [quality improvement] protocol to first decrease overall antibiotic duration from the more standard 30 days, and then we further decreased it along with ureteral stent decrease,” says Jessica Wenzel, MD, MPH.

“This is a pivotal phase 3 trial that I think is going to be practice changing to the urology community,” said Brian Shuch, MD.

Adding apalutamide to ADT with or without abiraterone acetate/prednisone significantly prolonged PSA PFS in men with biochemically relapsed prostate cancer, according to extended follow-up from the phase 3 PRESTO study.

"PRP does not seem to be effective in treating men with erectile dysfunction, at least as a monotherapy,” said Ranjith Ramasamy, MD.

“Zenflow is a novel minimally invasive surgical therapy that delivers a nitinol device into the prostatic urethra displacing the lateral lobes for improved urinary flow,” explained Dean Elterman, MD.

Beyond demonstrating clinical activity, pembrolizumab was safe and tolerable in this patient population.

“These results further support nivolumab as a standard of care for high-risk MIUC and MIBC after radical resection,” said Matthew Milowsky, MD.

The novel intravesical chemotherapy delivery system TAR-200 elicited complete responses in nearly three-fourths of patients with BCG-unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Single-dose URO-902 appeared to be safe and effective in treating women with overactive bladder and urge urinary incontinence, according to the final analysis of a phase 2a trial.

The patients’ preference for vibegron could be depending on the better efficacy for urgency incontinence, said Naoki Wada, PhD.

“We looked at safety issues within 12 months after the implantation, and they were minor—some pain problems, some wound-healing problems, but no serious adverse events,” said John Heesakkers, MD, PhD.

The results may help guide the decision between a partial and radical nephrectomy in patients with stage T1b to T2 renal cell carcinoma.

“What we found is that hypertension is an independent risk factor for worsened survival outcomes and mortality outcomes across the board on multivariable and Kaplan Meier analysis,” said Sohail Dhanji, MD.

The results provide further evidence of the “obesity paradox” in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Investigators retrospectively studied patients with Peyronie disease and diabetes mellitus between 2007 and 2022.

The 3- and 5-year MFS rates for those treated with enzalutamide plus leuprolide were 92.9% and 87.3%, respectively, compared with 83.5% and 71.4% for those given leuprolide alone.