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Open AccessCost-effectiveness of an urinary biomarker panel in combination with MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis
The health impact and cost-effectiveness of the biomarker test SelectMDx were evaluated when used in combination with MRI, in two US populations: biopsy naïve men and men with a previous negative biopsy.
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Racial variation in receipt of quality radiation therapy for prostate cancer
Racial disparities are apparent in the management and outcomes for prostate cancer; however, disparities in compliance to quality measures for radiation therapy for prostate cancer have not been previously stu...
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Urologic Oncology
Approximately half of all surgical procedures in the U.S. are performed in patients ≥65 years of age [1]. Furthermore, 50 % of new cancer diagnoses are made in patients ≥70 years of age [2]. Many elderly patie...
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Optimizing prostate cancer survivorship care
Prostate cancer survivors face a myriad of unique physical, psychological and emotional challenges during the often lengthy survivorship experience. Efforts to better characterize the unmet needs of this large...
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Hexaminolevulinate blue-light cystoscopy in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: review of the clinical evidence and consensus statement on appropriate use in the USA
A focus group of expert urologists has reviewed the clinical evidence relating to blue-light cystoscopy with hexaminolevulinate photosensitizer, and here sets out consensus statements for the use of this techn...
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Walking the tightrope of survival and quality of life with ADT
A recent study has highlighted the risks and benefits associated with the administration of intermittent androgen deprivation therapy in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Although there are improvement...
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Urologic Oncology
Over half of newly diagnosed cancers occur in individuals >65 years of age. With our growing elderly population, this proportion will likely to increase in the upcoming years. The incidence of urologic cancers...
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Improvements in clinical staging of muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Clinical staging of muscle-invasive bladder cancer remains limited by volume criteria used to identify nodal metastases. The development of accurate predictive models that identify patients at high risk of nod...
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The effect of body characteristics on mean operative times while experiencing the learning curve for robotic prostatectomy
We reviewed our series of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy to assess the effect of certain patient body characteristics on the mean operative time over the course of a single surgeon’s learning curve. Th...
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A case of synchronous bilateral testicular seminoma
The optimum management of patients with low-stage seminoma remains a matter of debate. Here, Resnick et al. detail the case of a 51-year-old man who was diagnosed with bilateral stage I testicular seminoma. The a...
