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- In a discussion, Alicia Morgans, Athanasios Papatsoris, and Petros Grivas focus on the Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) and its global medical education efforts. Dr. Papatsoris emphasizes the SIU's role as the third-largest urological association, uniting over 10,000 members from 130+ countries, while Dr. Grivas emphasizes its mission to eradicate disparities and educate urologists worldwid...
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- Ashish Kamat hosts Pavlos Msaouel to explore a technology-enabled platform designed to monitor patient-reported outcomes related to immune checkpoint inhibitors. The platform aims to reduce immune-related toxicities without sacrificing antitumor efficacy and uses dynamic electronic symptom alerting rules integrated with laboratory findings for accurate recommendations. Dr. Msaouel emphasizes the p...
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- Gianluca Giannarini joins Ashish Kamat to discuss a recent publication from European Urology Oncology, an editorial titled, "Urologists, You’ll Never Walk Alone! How Novel Immunotherapy and Modern Imaging May Change the Management of Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer". Dr. Giannarini discusses the management of patients with high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), especially those w...
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- In this 2021 LUGPA MCE presentation, Noah Hahn presents Systemic Therapies in Advanced Bladder Cancer. He reviews the current data and experiences with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies, (ICI) targeted therapies, and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapies. Biographies: Noah M. Hahn, MD, Professor of Oncology and Urology, Department of Oncology and Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of M...
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- Ashish Kamat is joined by Marek Babjuk, Morgan Roupret, and Wassim Kassouf for a rapid-fire debate on the management of small local recurrence low-grade bladder tumors with negative cytology. The patient in this debate is an 81-year-old male with multiple medical comorbidities. Dr. Morgan Roupret argues for formal TURBT with intravesical chemotherapy while Dr. Wassim Kassouf argues for active surv...
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- In this 2021 LUGPA presentation, Noah Hahn presents " Biomarkers and Next-Generation Sequencing in Advanced Bladder Cancer Patients" . Dr. Hahn discusses the differences in prognostic biomarkers and predictive biomarkers before discussing PD-L1 on the immunohistochemistry side, sequencing biomarkers, tumor mutational burden, and microsatellite instability or mismatch repair deficient tumors. Biogr...
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- In this discussion, Ashish Kamat speaks with Dan Theodorescu. Dr. Theodorescu presents his lab's novel findings on a unique epithelial cell subpopulation called "C3," identified using single-cell sequencing in muscle-invasive, non-metastatic tumors. This subpopulation predicts responses to chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors, offering new possibilities for targeted therapy. He also intro...
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- In this UroToday journal club, Christopher Wallis and Zachary Klaassen highlight a European Urology Focus publication entitled Underutilization of Blue Light Cystoscopy for Bladder Cancer in the United States. Blue light cystoscopy (BLC) for the management of nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is an evidence- and guideline-supported intervention that has been shown to increase cancer detect...
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- Lydia Makaroff, Stephanie Chisolm, and Alex Filicevas join Ashish Kamat on UroToday's Bladder Cancer Center of Excellence for a round table discussion on the importance of bladder cancer from a patient perspective and recent efforts by The World Bladder Cancer Patient Coalition. Their recently launched evidence generation study, or bladder cancer patient survey, aims to capture bladder cancer pati...
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- Ashish Kamat and Sumeet Bhanvadia, discuss the burden and impact of financial toxicity amongst a diverse population in bladder cancer patients. This conversation kicks off with a background on financial toxicity and how it may affect patient outcomes. Dr. Bhanvadia goes on to discuss the social and clinical determinants of financial toxicity among a diverse sample of bladder cancer patients. Dr. B...
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