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Researchers sought to understand if a lack of cancer progression as monitored by radiography could substitute overall survival as a metric for metastatic prostate cancer clinical trials.

“The gemcitabine/docetaxel [combination] has been the answer that many people have needed,” says Joshua J. Meeks, MD, PhD.

"When we think about medical fertility preservation, it really is an all-hands-on-deck type of situation," says Kristin Smith, MD.

"I think some of the biggest advances have come in the surgical space," says Vikas Desai, MD.

In this companion article, Jaideep S. Sohi, MD, shares insights on PSMA-PET imaging’s impact on real-world diagnosis and management of prostate cancer.

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This monthly series will begin in January 2024, and attendees can earn one category 1 CME credit per session.

“The bladder muscle can get weak as you get older, so developing urinary incontinence or ur-gency is very common as you get older,” says Vikas Desai, MD.

"The genomics assay was using biopsy tissue to help patients make decisions for the treatment choices. We also tested the effect of the assay on provider choice," says Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI.

“Our analysis suggests that there is superior clinical benefit with olaparib versus control both in patients who had and had not received previous taxane treatment,” said Maha Hussain, MD, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.

"Specifically when we stratified by tertiles, we saw that at 15 years there was a significant difference in cancer-specific survival for those who had a high MMAI score vs lower MMAI scores," says Eric Li, MD.

"All forms of cancer start out by genetic changes in the DNA that cause cancer, so genetic testing becomes very important," says William J. Catalona, MD.

"We're one of the first to look at hypogonadism, or low testosterone, as a marker for both frailty and also as a biomarker for how these patients do after surgery," says Daniel Greenberg, MD.

"We found that about 25% of these men had either sought treatment for a men's health issue or a sexual issue or had wanted to seek care," says Daniel Greenberg, MD.

“Health literacy pushed people towards active surveillance, which I thought was an interesting finding,” says Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI.

The research projects are assessing combination therapies in advanced prostate cancer that include the use of relugolix.

"For those people in the intervention arm who did get the assay, the doctors were more likely to prefer active treatment with surgery or radiation compared to the control group," says Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI.

“I've always felt like my patients are my partners in discovery,” says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

"It was really wonderful to work with a lot of our coauthors for the chapters because they really are thought leaders in the field," says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

“The purpose of the course is really to bring together like-minded surgeons and physicians who are interested in robotic reconstructive surgery to really come together to not only build a network, but also discuss complex situations, discuss tips and tricks, and also to review the most salient literature in this space,” says Ziho Lee, MD.

“I was of course flattered when Dr. Walsh and Janet Worthington approached me to take the lead on editing and writing this fifth version of the book,” says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

"I would say the take-home message from this study is that HoLEP uptake has nearly doubled from 2016 to 2019," says Jenny Guo, MD.

"Interestingly enough, we found that PVP accounted for nearly a third of BPH surgeries back in 2016. This number drastically decreased to just 0.7% of all BPH surgeries in 2019," says Jenny Guo, MD.

The Northwestern Medicine Department of Urology provides no-cost continuing medical education programs for urology professionals.

"[These findings] will encourage us to continue to offer bladder neck incision to these patients if their bladder neck appears narrow after laser enucleation," says Nicholas S. Dean, MD.

"Of the patients who underwent a prophylactic bladder neck incision... none of those patients developed a bladder neck contracture at 14 months of median follow-up," says Nicholas S. Dean, MD.

"My predominant role as a genetic counselor is really to serve our patient population and help support our providers," says Brittany M. Szymaniak, PhD, CGC.

“I think the prostate cancer community has benefited a lot in the past several years with the advent of enhanced imaging tools to help us better stage patients with prostate cancer both at their initial diagnosis and if, unfortunately, they have a recurrence,” says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

"I would say that the take-home message of the study is that these immunosuppressive medications have alterations in the microbiology in a lot of these organs and a lot of these tumors," says Conor Driscoll, MD.

"Northwestern Madison's urology program has a very robust clinical research enterprise," says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.