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1. Etiology & Epidemiology - Upper Tract Cancers
Background: Upper urinary tract urothelial tumors involving the renal pelvis or ureter account for 5% to 7% of all renal tumors and about 5% of all urothelial tumors. Renal pelvic tumors are not ...
2. Prostate Cancer: Prevalence - Incidence - Mortality
Prostate Cancer has been the most common noncutaneous malignancy in U.S. men since 1984, now accounting for one quarter of all such cancers. Adenocarcinoma of the prostate is the most common cancer ...
3. Beyond the Abstract - A risk-based strategy improves prostate-specific antigen-driven detection of prostate cancer, by Monique J. Roobol, MD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Despite recent results of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) that show relative mortality reduction up to 30% in favor of screening,
4. Beyond the Abstract - Erectile dysfunction as a predictor for subsequent atherosclerotic cardiovascular events: Findings from a linked-data study, by Kew-Kim Chew, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In permitting longitudinal data analyses of our study cohort of men with erectile dysfunction (ED) and without known previous history of cardiovascular (CV) disease, data ...
5. Beyond the Abstract - Transurethral resection of the prostate in saline versus nonconductive solution to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia: A randomized controlled study, by Taha Abo-Almagd Abdel-Meguid, MD, MSc, MB, BS
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - For many decades, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has been considered the benchmark of surgical management for BPH.
6. Beyond the Abstract - Preoperative criteria to select patients for bilateral nerve sparing robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP), by Giacomo Novara, MD, FEBU
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Erectile dysfunction is one of the most relevant functional complications following radical prostatectomy.
7. Beyond the Abstract - An alternative minimally invasive technique for large prostates (>80 mL): Transvesical prostatectomy through a 3-cm incision, by Vassilis Protogerou, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The key to this procedure is the fact that we don’t use hemostatic sutures; therefore we don’t require a large operating field.
8. Beyond the Abstract - A randomized trial of photoselective vaporization of the prostate using the 80-W potassium-titanyl-phosphate laser vs transurethral prostatectomy, with a 1-year follow-up, by David M. Bouchier-Hayes, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) makes up a significant amount of the workload of most urologists.
9. Beyond the Abstract - A new urinary catheter-related quality of life instrument for adults, by Mary Wilde, RN, PhD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) -   A New Catheter-related Quality of Life Instrument for Long-term Urinary Catheter Users
10. Beyond the Abstract - Patient satisfaction with the benefits of overactive bladder treatment: Exploration of influencing factors and development of a satisfaction assessment instrument, by Norman Zinner, MD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB), patient-reported outcomes, such as the Patient Perception of Bladder Condition (PPBC) and Patient Satisfaction with Treatment ...
11. Beyond the Abstract - Photoselective prostatic vaporization for bladder outlet obstruction: 12-month evaluation of storage and voiding symptoms, by Cosimo De Nunzio, MD, PhD, Roberto Miano, and Andrea Tubaro, MD, FEBU
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Transurethral prostatic resection (TURP) is still considered the gold standard treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) related to benign prostatic enlargement (BPE), ...
12. Beyond the Abstract - Antimuscarinics and bladder outlet obstruction: From a contraindication to an indication? by Anastasios Athanasopoulos, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Urinary symptoms, such as “storage/filling” symptoms owing to symptomatic bladder outlet obstruction (BOO), are very bothersome to the patient,
13. Beyond the Abstract - Association of body mass index with prostate cancer biochemical failure, by Jay P. Ciezki, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Our study of prostate cancer patients’ outcomes relative to their body mass index (BMI) is interesting because of the lack of effect we observed between BMI and the study’s ...
14. Beyond the Abstract - Safety and efficacy of combined transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate needle biopsy and transurethral resection of the prostate, by Tag Keun Yoo, MD, PhD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - This study was conducted to examine whether simultaneous transrectal prostate needle biopsy (TPNB) due to an increase in PSA levels is safe and effective
15. Beyond the Abstract - The future is today: Emerging drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, by Maarten Albersen, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is the most common male sexual dysfunction presented for treatment, and the most thoroughly studied sexual dysfunction in men.
16. Beyond the Abstract - Prevalence of erectile dysfunction complaints associated with sleep disturbances in Sao Paulo, Brazil: A population-based survey, by Monica L. Andersen, PhD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In 2007, a population-based survey was conducted adopting a probabilistic three-stage cluster sample of Sao Paulo used to represent the population according to gender, age ...
17. Beyond the Abstract - Urodynamics in a community-dwelling population of females 80 years or older. Which motive? Which diagnosis? by Françoise A. Valentini, MD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Urodynamics for elderly patients remains debatable because it is both invasive and expensive.
18. Beyond the Abstract - Influence of photoselective vaporization of the prostate on sexual function: Results of a prospective analysis of 149 patients with long-term follow-up, by Franck Bruyère, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Urology, and quite likely general surgery, are being overwhelmed by new technologies.
19. Beyond the Abstract - Understanding the effects of sildenafil treatment on erection maintenance and erection hardness, by Hubert I.M. Claes, MD, PhD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In our recent article published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, we used statistical modeling to make the first-reported estimate of the extent to which treatment of erectile ...
20. Beyond the Abstract - Transurethral resection (TUR) in saline plasma vaporization of the prostate vs. standard TUR of the prostate: 'The better choice' in benign prostatic hyperplasia? by Bogdan Geavlete, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) represents an important health problem of the contemporary society and the most common disease in male urological pathology.