Article of the Week: Decision-Making by PCa Physicians During AS
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…
Editorial: AS in PCa- New Efforts, New Voices, New Hope
In January 2016, in his final State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joseph Biden with heading up a new national mission, the Cancer Moonshot, to expedite advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. One of the blue-ribbon panel recommendations was to minimize the side effects of cancer treatment.
There is no better target for that goal than prostate cancer, the cancer that leads all others in the toll of Americans annually diagnosed with…
Video: Decision-Making by PCa Physicians During AS
Qualitative study on decision-making by prostate cancer physicians during active surveillance
Abstract
Objective
To explore and identify factors that influence physicians’ decisions while monitoring patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance (AS).
Subjects and Methods
A purposive sampling strategy was used to identify physicians treating prostate cancer from diverse clinical backgrounds and geographic areas across the USA. We conducted 24 in-depth…
Article of the Week: Value of 111In-PSMA-RGS for salvage lymphadenectomy in recurrent PCa
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…
Editorial: PSMA-RS – a promising utility
There is no doubt that, in the field of prostate cancer, few recent topics have been the subject of as much captivation and discussion as prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging. The body of literature on this imaging technique, the majority on the use of 68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC as a radiotracer, is growing unceasingly [1], and includes data to support the superior accuracy of PSMA PET/CT for lymph node staging in prostate cancer [2] and in identifying…
Video: Value of 111In-PSMA-RGS for salvage lymphadenectomy in recurrent PCa
Value of 111In-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-radioguided surgery for salvage lymphadenectomy in recurrent prostate cancer: correlation with histopathology and clinical follow-up
Abstract
Objectives
To evaluate the use of 111In-labelled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-I&T-based radioguided surgery (111In-PSMA-RGS) for salvage surgery in recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) using comparison of intra-operative gamma probe measurements with histopathological…
Article of the Week: Ureteric stent dwelling time: a risk factor for post-ureteroscopy sepsis
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…
Editorial: Pre-stenting and the risk of postoperative sepsis: a shorter dwell time is better
In this edition of the BJUI, Nevo et al. [1] report their retrospective review of 1256 patients who underwent ureteroscopy (URS)/flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) for stone disease and identified an overall sepsis rate of 2.8% within 48 h of surgery. About half of the cohort had a previously placed JJ stent, and the key finding of the study was the association between this and postoperative sepsis. In particular, the risk of sepsis in unstented patients was 1.2%, compared with 4.7% in those…
Residents’ Podcast: Long term follow up of erectile dysfunction after RP using nerve grafts
Jesse Ory, Kyle Lehmann and Jeff Himmelman
Department of Urology, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Abstract
Objective
To study a novel penile reinnervation technique using four sural nerve grafts and end-to-side neurorraphies connecting bilaterally the femoral nerve and the cavernous corpus and the femoral nerve and the dorsal penile nerves.
Patients and Methods
Ten patients (mean [± sd; range] age 60.3 [± 4.8; 54–68] years), who had undergone…
Article of the Month: Identification of non-invasive biomarkers of UCPPS: findings from the MAPP Research Network
Every Month the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Month from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…