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- Joshua Meeks joins Ashish Kamat in discussing the most recent relevant research papers in bladder cancer. Together they explore the publications on checkpoint inhibitors, the use of The Cancer Genome Atlas, Enhanced Recovery after Cystectomy and the impact of blue light flexible cystoscopy with CYSVIEW. Biographies: Josh J. Meeks, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Urology and Biochemistry and Mole...
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- Sima Porten joins Ashish Kamat in a conversation regarding post-operative care of radical cystectomy patients. As someone who has first-hand experience in the difficulty of a culture shift in this process, Dr. Porten outlines how clinics can successfully adopt the ERAS protocol for radical cystectomy, emphasizing the importance of its effectiveness driving a team mentality in the clinical setting....
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- Alicia Morgans and Joshua Meeks discuss the current shortage of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and how it is impacting clinicians' treatment decisions and ongoing clinical trials. Dr. Meeks shares his thoughts behind the shortage and provides his strategy for clinicians and teams to make the proper patient selection to use the available BCG effectively to cover as many patients as possible. Biograp...
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- Alicia Morgans and Joshua Meeks discuss the recent advancements in treating Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) unresponsive bladder cancer that came from the 2019 meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology. They review the many promising clinical trials including some early data from the Phase III VICINIUM trial as well as a promising combination intravesical chemotherapy options for non-muscle-invasi...
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- Arjun Balar and Alicia Morgans discuss the new era in systemic therapies in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) focusing on the systemic checkpoint inhibitor, pembrolizumab that resulted in the US FDA approval of pembrolizumab for treatment in early bladder cancer. Historically being in the domain of urologic oncologists, Drs. Morgans and Balar discuss the importance of the medical oncologi...
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- Rebecca Roe speaks to an interdisciplinary approach to implementation of Blue Light Cystoscopy (BLC™) in her community hospital center, giving a Clinical Education Program Coordinator's perspective. Her team engaged in the five management practices looking at ongoing communication and clinical training and measured things along the way, seeking feedback from every discipline that was utilized, whe...
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- Cxbladder diagnostic tests combine genomic information from urinary mRNA with phenotypic information to either rule out low-risk individuals or identify patients at a high risk of urothelial carcinoma (UC). In this video presentation, Badrinath Konety overviews this study which aimed to evaluate the performance of Cxbladder and urine cytology and Cxbladder's adjudication of atypical cytology and e...
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- Sima Porten discusses her work on using guided imagery to decrease anxiety for patients prior to undergoing major urologic surgery. Patients were asked to listen to guided imagery tapes and MP3s at least once a day for the two weeks leading up to their surgery. Patients were given an anxiety survey before receiving the tape and also the day before surgery. Patients also used a text messaging app t...
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- Yair Lotan discusses the recently published consensus statement on flexible blue light cystoscopy (BLC™) with Cysview ® . His presentation is centered around the published consensus in Nature Reviews developed by multiple experts (authors) in bladder cancer. Yair discusses the role of blue light flexible cystoscopy with CYSVIEW in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The expert consensus group met...
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- Ashish Kamat invites Stephen Williams to present on costs and survival analysis between radical cystectomy and trimodal therapy. He shares results of two studies which patients from 2002-2011 were looked at in both studies focusing on methodology/statistical analyses and the outline of outcomes. This work found that trimodal therapy had significantly worse survival, these findings persisted across...
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