Dr. Gill on reducing IPP teaching visits
December 14th 2023"Using the model of 100 implants per year, and assuming that we can reduce teaching visits by 1 during that 90-day global period, that translates into an estimated additional 3000 minutes of outpatient time that you have available to assist other patients," says Bradley Gill, MD.
Dr. Rayala on incorporating nitrous oxide for transrectal prostate biopsy
December 12th 2023"We're entering an era of more trauma-informed care, and trying to be sensitive to the fact that some of these invasive procedures can be a trigger for people because they're in that moment of feeling helpless and they don't have really a lot of control over the situation," says Heidi J. Rayala, MD.
Bree Duncan, RN, BSN, on challenges faced by female patients with bladder cancer
December 8th 2023"There are a lot of questions and issues regarding [topics] like body image and sexual function, and things like that, that also, being a woman in this role, I feel like they feel comfortable asking me those questions," says Bree Duncan, RN, BSN.
Dr. Shore on germline and somatic testing in prostate cancer
December 7th 2023"Then [we] also started looking at somatic testing, because if you only stop at germline testing, you miss another 50% of patients who would have somatic alterations who have resistant prostate cancer," says Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS.
Dr. Huelster on the use of ctDNA in upper tract urothelial carcinoma
December 4th 2023“[Although] not yet ready for prime time, ctDNA is being investigated as a very promising non-invasive plasma biomarker of invasive or advanced-stage upper tract urothelial carcinoma,” says Heather L. Huelster, MD.
Dr. Woldu on disparities in advanced renal cell carcinoma
December 1st 2023"In the study, when taking into account other factors, such as the socioeconomic factors that are available to us in the NCDB, we find that African American and Hispanic patients are about 20% less likely to receive immune checkpoint inhibition for advanced RCC," says Solomon L. Woldu, MD.
AI tool predicts survival in patients undergoing RP in the PLCO trial
November 29th 2023"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.
Trends in care for restoring erectile function after prostatectomy
November 23rd 2023"In general, I think there's a tremendous amount of variability in terms of how sexual medicine specialists treat patients who have had intimacy issues relating to robotic prostatectomy," says Stanton Honig, MD.
Dr. Pearlman on the safety of hyaluronic acid fillers for penile augmentation
November 21st 2023"What we found is, in a retrospective review of nearly 500 patients over a 3-year span, none of those patients reported erectile dysfunction, none of them reported loss of penile sensation, and none of them required a trip to the operating room for intervention," says Amy Pearlman, MD.