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(UroToday.com) As part of the “Game-changing Session 2” plenary presentation at the European Association of Urology (EAU) Virtual Annual Meeting, Dr. Neal Shore presented results of the phase III trial of nadofaregene firadenovec in patients with high-grade, bacillus calmette-guerin or BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer on behalf of Dr. Boorjian, Dr. Dinney, and the Society of Urologic […]

(UroToday.com) In bladder cancer, our goal is to eradicate existing bladder tumors and prevent or delay tumor recurrence and progression while preventing pan-urothelial disease. High grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is a very heterogeneous disease. BCG for NMIBC has an initial response rate of 70-80%, but some patients do not derive benefit, and over […]

(UroToday.com) Prostate membrane antigen (PSMA) is a type 2 transmembrane protein with an enzymatic function of a folate hydrolase carboxypeptidase. It is expressed in several tissues with different functions, including activity in Glial cells, modulating signal transduction pathway, in the small intestine, assisting in fulling absorption, and it has an uncertain role in the prostate (figure […]

(UroToday.com) According to the EAU guidelines, the treatment recommendations for high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) include full dose BCG instillations for 1-3 years or radical cystectomy. BCG reduces the risk of progression in NMIBC, but 30% of T1G3 will require deferred radical cystectomy. In T1G3, five-year disease-related death after BCG occurs in 11.3% of […]

(UroToday.com) For radioligand therapy to be performed, the ligand needs to be radiolabeled with the isotope; it will need to be injected to the patient, allowing it to bind to the target of our choice. It is important to make sure that the target is being overexpressed using imaging based on the same ligand before […]

(UroToday.com) There has been significant progress in the last century in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer (Figure 1). Figure 1- Treatment changes in Prostate cancer: The older generation radioisotope treatments such as strontium, samarium, and radium were directed to areas of increased bone turnover in bone metastasis, and they were not prostate cancer-specific. They are […]

(UroToday.com) As part of a plenary presentation at the European Association of Urology (EAU) Virtual Annual Meeting assessing “Modern prostate cancer imaging in daily practice”, Dr. Ahmed examined the role of imaging as a triage approach in patients suspected of having prostate cancer.

Urolithiasis is a multifactorial disease; in recent years, its incidence has gradually increased in pediatric age. Among the factors involved in urolithiasis pathophysiology, urinary tract anomalies and metabolic diseases are the most relevant, although ethnicity and environmental factors may have an important role.

A 77-year-old nulligravida had been a regular patient in our practice for 9 years for treatment of urgency urinary incontinence (UUI), recurrent stress urinary incontinence (SUI), and lichen sclerosus (LS).

To compare short term results of autologous rectus fascia pubovaginal sling surgery with synthetic transobturator vaginal tape procedure in treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) STUDY DESIGN: It was a comparative study on 30 women between 25-65 years of age with urodynamic proven SUI who were randomly allocated to autologous rectus fascia pubovaginal sling […]