Dr. Una Lee and Dr. Wai Lee on mid-urethral slings and the importance of open communication
October 28th 2021“I think that a lot of the best practices that the surgeons had developed and honed were really excellent communication skills, and…building a trusting physician-patient relationship, where they truly provided an informed consent of all the risks, all the benefits, [and] all the alternatives,” says Una Lee, MD, FPMRS.
Dr. Loeb on urologists being conscious of their environmental impact
October 19th 2021“Bottom line, there's really no way to separate all of the things that we do, but I think we can all be more conscious on a day-to-day basis in terms of our own environmental footprint and just making better choices,” says Stacy Loeb, MD, PhD, MSc.
Dr. Stewart assesses novel renal cancer treatment
October 14th 2021“Clearly, we are now in that era of TKIs in addition to checkpoint inhibitors, and so…it makes logical sense from the place we're at [in] the moment in renal cancer treatment with those combinations of treatment,” says Grant Stewart, MD.
Surgeons weigh in on MUS surgery for patients with stress urinary incontinence
October 12th 2021“I think the surgeon voice is an important voice to be heard because there's not a lot of avenues for surgeons to be able to be honest and share all the things they've learned and all the things they've experienced with their patients,” says Una Lee, MD, FPMRS.
Dr. Suskind overviews new white paper focused on incontinence in older patients
October 11th 2021As a committee, we felt that there was a need to put together a document to help field some of the ethical considerations that we run into in clinical care but have very little guidance on,” says Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, FACS, FPMRS.
Dr. Huang discusses UGN-102 as treatment alternative for NMIBC
October 8th 2021"The focus of this study and the patient cohort that we're looking at are patients with intermediate-risk bladder cancer who [also have] low-grade bladder cancer. These patients [typically have] a lot of recurrences [and] multi-focal disease but are at low risk of progressing on to metastatic disease or developing invasion into their bladder wall,” says William C. Huang, MD.
Dr. Clayman encourages urologists to help distribute endoscopy kits
October 8th 2021“The world's a very, very small place and there are a lot of people who are hurting. It's our job as physicians to help relieve that discomfort, wherever it may exist, whether it's here in the United States or elsewhere, and this is the device that allows that to be realized,” says Ralph V. Clayman, MD.
Dr. Stewart discusses study of neoadjuvant axitinib in renal cell carcinoma
October 7th 2021“The concept behind the NAXIVA trial was to treat these patients with pre-surgical neoadjuvant targeted therapy with a means of downstaging that venous tumor thrombus, reducing the extent of it to try and make the surgery less morbid to the patient and to potentially improve survival,” says Grant Stewart, MD.
Study assesses the efficacy of Rezum water vapor therapy in treating BPH
October 7th 2021“This study really demonstrates, for one of the first times certainly in the largest cohort of men ever [studied], that Rezum water vapor thermal therapy is a viable option to treat men with very large prostates bigger than 80 mL,” says Dean Elterman, MD, MSc, FRCSC.
Comparing the effectiveness of RALP and ORP
October 6th 2021“I want to reiterate that this study doesn't necessarily say that 1 approach is better than the other, but it definitely does reinforce some advantages of robotic surgery that have been shown not just in this study, but in other studies as well,” says Peter Chang, MD, PhD.
The Endockscope system “serves as a paradigm”
October 5th 2021“[We gave the ES kits out] with the idea that instead of having these people…travel…hundreds of miles to a main hospital for their endoscopy, the urologist could travel to a village with just the smartphone and the endoscope set-up and proceed to do a ton of endoscopy there,” says Ralph V. Clayman, MD.
Examining financial factors in prostate cancer treatment patterns
October 1st 2021“I think the key [is to not] get rid of financial incentives. I don't think that's possible. [Rather, we should] align financial incentives [so] that [we] can promote what is best for patients,” says Lillian Y. Lai, MD.