Martin Sanda, MD, considers potential future advancements in urology

In this video, Martin G. Sanda, MD, highlights key areas of future advancements in urology. Sanda is a professor of urology and the outgoing chair of the department of urology at Emory University School of Medicine, as well as the director of the prostate cancer center at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.

Video Transcript:

There's a lot of exciting things happening in urology. In the cancer space, there's a tremendous opportunity around using gene sequencing and RNA sequencing to better profile severity of patient cancers and to guide appropriate treatment plans. That's true for cancers across the board, and certainly true for the big 3 urology cancers, if you will––prostate cancer, bladder cancer, renal cancer––as well as other urological tumors. That's certainly an area where there's tremendous opportunity and a lot of dynamic changes ongoing. We've been very fortunate to be able to be involved in some of that work.

And I think the key progress in this arena is oftentimes not just 1 institution or 1 investigator, but it's really about collaboration, both within the institution as well as between different institutions. We've had partnerships with University of Michigan; University of Washington; University of Alabama, Birmingham; University of Texas, Southwestern; and a variety of other institutions across the country. Those are key to making the best progress.

Another area where Emory urology is very much involved and also very much a multidisciplinary [effort] is imaging. In particular, around [the] deployment of artificial intelligence in imaging and in the interpretation of imaging data, such as MRI, for example, MRI for prostate cancer, kidney cancer, other tumors, and other aspects of artificial intelligence, [such as] interpretation of genomic data with AI. I think those are some of the really exciting areas that are going to change the way we practice in the coming years.

This transcript was AI generated and edited by human editors for clarity.