Office-Based Procedures for BPH.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a common disease in men. A rapidly rising demand for safe and effective therapy for BPH has generated novel minimally invasive surgical treatments (MISTs). With multiple procedural options in the urology armamentarium for BPH therapy, we describe the current therapies and outcomes for office-based procedures for BPH including quality of […]

Merck Receives Positive EU CHMP Opinion for KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) as Adjuvant Therapy for Certain Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma Following Surgery

Recommendation Based on Significant Disease-Free Survival Benefit Demonstrated With KEYTRUDA Versus Placebo in Phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 Trial San Francisco, CA (UroToday.com) — Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of […]

First-line pazopanib in patients with advanced non-clear cell renal carcinoma: An Italian case series.

Non-clear cell (ncc) metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (RCC) has dismal results with standard systemic therapies and a generally worse prognosis when compared to its clear-cell counterpart. New systemic combination therapies have emerged for metastatic RCC (mRCC), but the pivotal phase III trials excluded patients with nccRCC, which constitute about 30% of metastatic RCC cases.

Development and Validation of a Predictive Model to Evaluate the Risk of Bone Metastasis in Kidney Cancer.

Bone is a common target of metastasis in kidney cancer, and accurately predicting the risk of bone metastases (BMs) facilitates risk stratification and precision medicine in kidney cancer. Patients diagnosed with kidney cancer were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database to comprise the training group from 2010 to 2017, and the […]

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