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The findings suggest creatinine-based eGFR equations alone may be inaccurate, and cystatin C or combined eGFR equations may be a more accurate assessment of kidney function in this population.

"When we put this course together, we didn't want it to be a course about working more; it was really about working more efficiently, so that you can gain more time outside of work," says Angela B. Smith, MD, MS.

At 5-year follow-up, overall survival among patients with kidney cancer who had quit smoking was 85% compared with 61% for those that continued to smoke.

Cleveland Clinic surgeons describe a new technique for harvesting a rectal mucosa graft.

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Urologists weigh in on the challenges associated with whether, when, and how to treat these patients with prostate cancer.

"We are caring for a variety of patients who do not look like the physicians who are providing care to them," says Akanksha Mehta, MD, MS.

"We are confident that surgery for [testicular seminoma] will be included into treatment guidelines in the near future,” says Sia Daneshmand, MD.

Active surveillance is the preferred treatment option for men with low-risk prostate cancer and an option for some men with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

The approval of pembrolizumab plus enfortumab vedotin in urothelial cancer was supported by results from the EV-103/KEYNOTE-869 trial.

“These disparities are concerning as the generalizability of clinical trial results relies on the assumption that the population of patients included in a clinical trial represents the overall population of patients with the disease," says Brian M. Shinder, MD.

Apalutamide is approved by the FDA for the treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer or metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

Modifier -25 is defined as a significant, separately identifiable E/M service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional on the same day of the procedure or other service.

"In our sample, nearly 10% of patients [with prostate cancer] had a gene variant that made them eligible for effective new therapies, with faster results than traditional referral for genetic testing and counseling,” said Maria I. Carlo, MD.

“This fellowship was one of the first FPRMS fellowships and one of only three ever created which fully incorporated both urology and gynecology in a single training program,” said Roger Dmochowski, MD.

The deep learning software also showed no difference in the consistency of scoring with the Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS).

Patients received standard-of-care testosterone suppression with either oral enzalutamide or standard non-steroidal antiandrogen therapy.

Prostate cancer, bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma were among the multitude of tumor types assessed in the analysis supporting the approval.

"The improvement in technologies could potentially assist radiation oncologists in making timely decisions,” said Himanshu Arora, PhD.

“The potential benefits of incorporating AI into health care are numerous but like every technology, AI comes with risks that must be managed if the benefits of these tools are to outweigh the potential costs,” writes cybersecurity expert Jon Moore.

Michael S. Leapman, MD, MHS, highlights a study of patient experiences with tissue-based genomic testing during active surveillance for prostate cancer.

"Some of these patients newly referred don't have any other proven therapies remaining...This is the only one on the shelf that has a proven benefit. Unfortunately, we can't offer them that at this stage," says Praful Ravi, MD, BChir, MRCP.

Researchers identified 9 novel susceptibility loci for prostate cancer, 7 of which were substantially more prevalent in patients of African ancestry.

No CxM-negative patients had findings of a recurrent tumor on a follow-up cystoscopy.

The PSMA-targeted monoclonal antibody J591 is effective in non-metastatic CRPC when it is radiolabeled with either 177Lu or 111In.

"These studies, taken together, offer important insight into the direction we should be heading in prostate cancer diagnosis: toward a targeted-only TP biopsy," write Tarik Benidir, MD, and Zeyad Schwen, MD.

In 2021, small urology programs had 28.1% spots filled by applicants at their home program, compared with 16.2% between 2016 and 2020.

"I've worked in 3 different countries, I've seen dozens of people doing robotic radical prostatectomy...so my current practice is kind of a “best of” what I have seen and learned," says Ricardo Soares, MD.

"With ARASTEP, we are optimistic about the potential to help patients at this earlier stage of [prostate cancer]," says Tara Frenkl, MD.

Amar Kishan, MD, highlights findings showing that MRI-guided SBRT is superior to CT-guided SBRT in localized prostate cancer.