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The BCG Shortage - What To Do In This Setting - Joshua Meeks

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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...

Advancements in BCG Unresponsive Bladder Cancer: Highlights from the 2019 SUO Meeting - Joshua Meeks

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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...

A New Era In Systemic Therapies, Pembrolizumab for High Risk Non-Muscle Invasive BCG-Refractory Patients - Arjun Balar

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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...

Utilizing Change Management for Successful Implementation of Blue light cystoscopy (BLC™) - Rebecca Roe

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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...

Evaluation of Cxbladder and Adjudication of Atypical Cytology and Equivocal Cystoscopy - Badrinath Konety

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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...

Guided Imagery for Urologic Surgery - Sima Porten

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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...

Consensus Statement on Flexible Blue Light Cystoscopy (BLC™) with Cysview® - Yair Lotan

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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...

Comparative Analyses of Costs and Survival Between Radical Cystectomy and Trimodal Therapy - Stephen Williams

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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...

Blue Light Cystoscopy with CYSVIEW: Improving Detection Rates of Bladder Cancer in the Clinic - Yair Lotan

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Yair Lotan discusses the advancements in the ability to detect bladder cancer and bladder cancer recurrence in the clinic with blue light cystoscopy. Until recently, the technology was only available in the OR but now, with the approval of blue light flexible cystoscopy bladder cancer surveillance can now be done in the clinic. The blue light cystoscopy with CYSVIEW is performed in the clinic to d...

Blue Light Cystoscopy (BLC™): What Urologist Want to Know - Anne Schuckman

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Anne Schuckman, MD presents the information that supports her decision to use blue light cystoscopy with CYSVIEW in the clinic. She takes us through the data of the studies and her experiences too. Biography: Anne Kathryn Schuckman, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Dr. Anne Schuckman graduated from Stanford University and completed her medical training at...