Phillip Koo: Hello, this is Phillip Koo from UroToday. We’re very fortunate to have with us today, Dr. Frankis Almaguel, who’s Assistant Professor and Director of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics at the Loma Linda University Cancer Center. He’s here today to continue our lecture series that is sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and […]
Alicia Morgans: Hi. My name is Alicia Morgans, and I’m a GU medical oncologist at Northwestern University. I’m excited to have here with me today a friend and colleague, Mark Preston, who’s an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as a urologic oncologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber […]
To report the outcomes for 76 patients with penile cancer treated with high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) at a single institution. Seventy-six patients with penile cancer treated with HDR-BT in our department between October 1998 and September 2018 were analyzed. Seventy underwent interstitial HDR-BT (fractionation dose range of 3-3.5 Gy given twice a day with an interval […]
To evaluate programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) staining fidelity between the primary tumor and associated lymph node metastases in bladder cancer. To secondarily evaluate whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) affects this relationship. 67 subjects with residual bladder cancer on cystectomy and associated positive lymph nodes were identified between 2008 and 2015. PD-L1 staining of tumor cells […]
Disease monitoring in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients is crucial for early identification of disease recurrence and progression. High IQGAP3/BMP4 and IQGAP3/FAM107A ratios in urinary cell-free DNA (ucfDNA) are a diagnostic biomarker for bladder cancer. We aimed to investigate whether the levels of these biomarkers in ucfDNA can be used to monitor disease recurrence or […]
To evaluate the impact of the addition of quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) data into the diagnostic performance of the Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System version 2 (PI-RADSv2) scoring system to predict clinically significant prostate cancer (CSPCa). We retrospectively included 91 consecutive patients who underwent prostate multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) and histopathological evaluation. […]
Prostate cancer commonly affects older men, with one out of five patients being diagnosed at 75 years or older. Elderly patients are more likely to have reduced performance and nutritional status, increased comorbidities, polypharmacy, and altered host-dependent pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Moreover, elderly patients are often underrepresented in clinical trials, mainly because of comorbidities and decline in […]
The current standard of care for patients with metastatic prostate cancer is systemic androgen deprivation therapy, and addressing the primary tumor has been reserved for patients with localized disease. However, emerging data has called into question the universality of this paradigm. Recent studies have found treatment of the primary tumor in patients with metastatic disease […]
Within the Movember Foundation’s Global Action Plan Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance (GAP3) initiative, 25 centers across the globe collaborate to standardize active surveillance (AS) protocols for men with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa). A centralized PCa AS database, comprising data of more than 15000 patients worldwide, was created. Comparability of the histopathology between the different cohorts […]
To assess the upstaging/upgrading rates of low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) according to the biopsy scheme used (systematic (SB), targeted biopsies (TB), or both) in the setting of positive pre-biopsy MRI. We included 143 consecutive men fulfilling the Toronto University active surveillance (AS) criteria who underwent a pre-biopsy positive MRI, a combination of SB and software-based […]
