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Is There a Role for Surgery in the Treatment of Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma?
Purpose: Bladder cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide with over 614,000 new cases and 220,000 deaths annually. Five percent of newly diagnosed patients have metastatic disease.
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Efficacy and safety of microwave ablation in solitary kidney patients with T1a small renal masses.
To assess the safety and efficacy of using microwave ablation (MWA) to treat solitary kidney (SK) patients with T1a renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained ...
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Physician Payment Incentives and Active Surveillance in Low-Risk Prostate Cancer.
Active surveillance in men with less aggressive prostate cancer is inconsistently used despite clinical guidelines. Renumeration generally favors treatment over conservative management and may ...
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Managing BCG Shortages and Advancing Bladder Cancer Care
Sam Chang hosts Eugene Pietzak to discuss treatment options for BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer and the challenges of evaluating their comparative effectiveness. Dr. Pietzak emphasizes that while ...
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Advances in Prostate Cancer Treatment: Radionuclide Therapy for Prostate Cancer - Beyond the Abstract
Radionuclide therapy has shown promise in the treatment of metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Radium-223, an alpha-emitting radioisotope, was the first radiopharmaceutical to ...
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Outcomes of Bladder-Preserving Radiation Therapy in Locally Advanced MIBC - Expert Commentary
Up to 40% of patients with Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) are ineligible for cisplatin-based neoadjuvant therapy or radical surgery due to comorbidities. Carriere et al. investigated the ...
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Outcomes with Novel Combinations in Non-Clear Cell RCC: ORACLE Study - Deepak Kilari
Outcomes with Novel Combinations in Non-Clear Cell RCC: ORACLE Study - Deepak Kilari ...
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Towards Reliable Methodology: Microbiome Analysis of Fresh Frozen vs. Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Bladder Tissue Samples: A Feasibility Study.
Studies have shown that the human microbiome influences the response to systemic immunotherapy. However, only scarce data exist on the impact of the urinary microbiome on the response rates of bladder ...
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Enhancing Data Completeness in Early Detection Pathway of Prostate Cancer: Integration of a Dashboard-Driven Feedback Tool to Improve Quality of Care.
Background: Quality assurance in data collection is essential as data quality directly impacts the accuracy and reliability of outcomes. In the context of early detection of prostate cancer, improving ...
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Current Clinical Applications of PSMA-PET for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Staging, and Treatment.
Over the past decade, prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA-PET) has revolutionized prostate cancer (PCa) imaging, offering greater sensitivity and specificity compared ...
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Sensitive Detection of Urothelial Cancer via High-volume Urine DNA Analysis - Beyond the Abstract
Our study demonstrates the capabilities of high volume urine tumor DNA (utDNA) based cancer detection in urothelial cancer (UC) diagnostics and surveillance. It explores important clinical and ...
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SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Amplifies the Immunogenicity of Healthy Renal Epithelium in the Presence of Renal Cell Carcinoma.
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common form of kidney cancer, known for its immune evasion and resistance to chemotherapy. Evidence indicates that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may worsen outcomes for ...