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- Ekaterina Laukhtina and Ashish Kamat discuss urethral recurrence after radical cystectomy. Dr. Laukhtina goes into depth on using urethroscopy to diagnose urethral recurrence as well as when urethrectomy may be useful highlighting a systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the incidence and risk factors of urethral recurrence as well as summarizing data on survival outcomes in patients with u...
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- Sophia Kamran joins Sam Chang to discuss her presentation from the GU ASCO 2022 Annual Meeting focusing on novel therapies in bladder cancer and their toxicities, discussing the role of bladder-sparing trimodality therapy with a focus on toxicity and functional outcomes. Biographies: Sophia C. Kamran, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hosp...
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- Carissa Chu joins Sam Chang to discuss data on genetic changes and alterations in urothelial carcinoma. The purpose of the study is to characterize human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (ERBB2) and fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) mutations in a prospectively collected cohort of urothelial cancers. Dr. Chu highlights the key findings from this study. Biographies: Carissa Chu,...
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- Alicia Morgans is joined by Jeannie Hoffman-Censits and Elizabeth Guancial to discuss the challenges women face navigating a bladder cancer diagnosis. In 2022, the American Cancer Society estimates more than 81,000 will be diagnosed with bladder cancer in the United States. Of those, 61,700 will be men, and 19,480 will be women. Drs. Morgans, Hoffman-Censits, and Guancial discuss the importance of...
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- Ashish Kamat and Boris Gershman discuss radical cystectomy versus trimodal therapy for muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Dr. Gershman gives an in-depth background on the pros and cons of radical cystectomy and trimodal therapy for muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma, while also describing which may be better for these patients. They also discuss the hopes that, as a community,...
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- Benjamin Miron, a 2021 recent recipient of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network's (BCAN) Young Investigator Award joins Alicia Morgans to speak about the Young Investigator Award Program. Dr. Miron speaks on the importance of this program and the opportunity it provides young investigators to jumpstart their careers. This funding Dr. Miron received helped to investigate new biomarkers for bladder c...
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- Ashish Kamat is joined by Bernard Bochner to discuss patient quality of life after a radical cystectomy. Dr. Bochner highlights a number of factors that can be affected by having a radical cystectomy which is a significant surgery. Drs. Kamat and Bochner offer insights on assembling a team to assure the best quality of life for these patients. Biographies: Bernard H. Bochner, MD, FACS, Attending S...
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- Siamak (Sia) Daneshmand joins Ashish Kamat in a discussion on the role of blue-light cystoscopy (BLC) in detecting invasive bladder tumors. Providing background on the beneficial use of BLC in carcinoma in situ (CIS), Dr. Daneshmand highlights the evidence on the potential of finding additional TA tumors with the use of BLC. He showcases data from a BJUI multi-institutional registry publication on...
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- Ashish Kamat and Sarah Psutka, discuss how to optimize radical cystectomy patients long before the patient even enters the operating room. Dr. Psutka touches on the complications of the procedure, as well as ways that we can try to limit those complications. They also discuss risk stratification and additional testing for radical cystectomy candidates. Biographies: Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MSc, Urolog...
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- Ashish Kamat and Molly Ingersoll, discuss mucosal immunity in the bladder with specific reference to gender differences and how that affects biology. Dr. Ingersoll shares how the immune system knows how to kill specific tumor cells, and how those are mechanistically different between sexes. This conversation also addresses the need to form larger collaborative research efforts to really attack the...
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