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The approval of upfront abiraterone for castration-sensitive prostate cancer and the approval of enzalutamide and apalutamide for non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer have led to early utilization of potent androgen receptor (AR) signaling inhibitors in treating advanced prostate cancer. There is an unmet need to develop novel therapies beyond targeting AR signaling for metastatic castration-resistant prostate […]

Phillip Koo: Hello. My name is Phillip Koo, editor of the Imaging Center of Excellence for UroToday.com. We’re very fortunate to have with us today Dr. Ephraim Parent, assistant professor at Mayo Clinic and also the co-chair of the Prostate Cancer Outreach Working Group for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Today we’re […]

A 52-yr-old man, 35 pack-year smoker, is diagnosed with two non-muscle-invasive urothelial tumors, pTa and pT1, the former upstaged to pT1 by a reference pathologist. Two possible treatment strategies include intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and/or primary or rescue cystectomy. The importance or even accurate existence of “variant histology” is put into perspective, and whether the […]

Early diagnose of bladder cancer could lead to good prognosis and high 5-year-survival rate. Among bladder cancer, about 75% patients with were nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Patients were painful and easily get infected during bladder cancer diagnosis, which mainly depends on invasive cystoscopy and low-sensitivity urine exfoliation cytology. Meanwhile, relapse after surgery was also becoming […]

CDK4/6 inhibitors are a promising treatment strategy in tumor therapy but are hampered by resistance mechanisms. This study was performed to reveal predictive markers, mechanisms of resistance and to develop rational combination therapies for a personalized therapy approach in bladder cancer. A genome-scale CRISPR-dCas9 activation screen for resistance to the CDK4/6 inhibitor Palbociclib was performed […]

The clinical management and follow-up of patients with recurrent prostate cancer after salvage radiotherapy (SRT) has not yet been established, and no standardized definition of biochemical recurrence (BCR) after SRT exists. We compared the impact of applying three different definitions of BCR following SRT on patient outcomes and prognostication. Patients who received salvage androgen-deprivation therapy […]

Inflammation is inherent in prostatic diseases and it is now accepted that it may facilitate cellular proliferation in both benign and malignant conditions. The strong relationship between prostatic inflammation and pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is supported by epidemiologic, histopathologic and molecular evidence. Contrariwise, the role of inflammation in prostate carcinogenesis is still controversial, […]

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) expression has been reported in many types of cancer, including prostate cancer (PCa). However, the role of EpCAM expression remains inconsistent. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the clinicopathological and prognostic significance of EpCAM expression in PCa. Publications were searched online using electronic databases. The available data were obtained from […]