Dr. Megan Prunty discusses the gender gap in authorship for urology
February 7th 2022“If you're looking at our results, in terms of the percent of authors who are female, the percent of first authors are female, or last authors who are female, we've seen growth in all 3 categories over the last 18 years,” said Megan Prunty, MD.
GU toxicity determined by germline variants in retrospective prostate cancer study
February 3rd 2022“What we found was a signature that you can apply to patients to find out whether they're at high risk of these moderate or greater urinary side effects in the long term, and it did appear to depend on the type of radiation they were receiving,” says Amar U. Kishan, MD.
How appropriate use criteria for PSMA-PET imaging optimize patient care
February 2nd 2022In a recent interview, Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, discussed what the appropriate use criteria consist of for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-PET imaging, and why these criteria are vital in ensuring the individualized care of patients.
Dr. Nickel highlights first 2 parts of pivotal review of saw palmetto in BPH
February 2nd 2022“What's interesting in Dr Strum's analysis of these trials is that he not only looked at the English literature, which many of us are familiar with, but he looked at the many studies done in countries that were published in the non-English literature and never found [their] way into any of our analyses,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC.
Investigators analyze patterns of treatment preferences in patients with OAB
February 1st 2022“Our goal was to educate these patients thoroughly on the risks and benefits of each of these therapies, and try to understand what guides their choice of third line therapy based on their lifestyle and what suits them,” says Anjali Kapur, MD.
The importance of climate change to urologists treating kidney stones
January 28th 2022“I think there is an urgency for us as urologists who are seeing many of these patients with kidney stones to be advocates, not just for the patients whom we're treating today, but for the populations in the future,” says Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.
Appropriate use criteria for PSMA-PET imaging will help guide clinicians
January 27th 2022“This is an attempt to provide the clinicians with the most recent available data and evidence, and therefore, tell them how this particular imaging…may affect their decision making for the treatment and management of their patients,” says Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD.
Dr. Spiess and Dr. Necchi on new society for rare GU cancers
January 25th 2022“Andrea and I lead this from [a] President/Vice President standpoint, but we also have a group of leaders from around the world, really representing all ethnicities, genders and others, because we wanted to make sure [that] we're inclusive, andmeet the needs and expectations of everybody,” says Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FRCSC, FACS.
Kidney stone occurrence projected to increase with climate change over time
January 24th 2022“The main question we were interested in answering was what the impact of future climate under different scenarios of climate change would have on the incidence of kidney stone disease, using South Carolina as a model state,” says Jason Kaufman.
Final report of the OLYMPUS Jelmyto trial: Takeaways for urologists
January 24th 2022“I think that these data firmly establish UGN-101, or Jelmyto, as a bona fide treatment option for kidney preservation for patients with low-grade, non-invasive urothelial cancer in the upper urinary tract,” says Seth P. Lerner, MD.
Dr. Linehan on advancements in minimally invasive and robotic technologies
January 7th 2022“I think in specialized cases, especially for patients [who] need focal therapy or want focal therapy, or [for whom] you're really trying to minimize any nerve damage or urethral damage…these are excellent therapies,” says Jennifer Linehan, MD.
Patient removal of ureteral stent with extraction string is safe and economical
January 5th 2022“Going into this study, we thought that potentially patients who had a stent placed with the string left in place were at higher risk of having a complication…But we found that they weren't at higher risk of a complication,” says Amy E. Krambeck, MD.