Conferences - Results from #11500

AUA 2011 - Late breaking news: Denosumab to prevent bone metastases (Dmab 147 Study) - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Denosumab interrupts the reciprocal interaction of tumor and bone cells.

AUA 2011 - Late breaking news: Response of human kidneys to ischemia during partial nephrectomy: Results from a prospective clinical trial - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Dipen Parekh and his team studied the duration of ischemia time and whether it impacts renal function and also evaluated the role of novel biomarkers in this setting.

AUA 2011 - State-of-the-art lecture: Personalized medicine in bladder cancer - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Dan Theodorescu discussed approaches to personalized bladder cancer therapy.

AUA 2011 - State-of-the-art lecture: Prostate cancer susceptibility genes - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Kathleen Cooney discussed the analysis of families with high incidences of prostate cancer (CaP) that led to genetic analyses.

AUA 2011 - State-of-the-art lecture: Risks of imaging and monitoring patients with urologic cancers - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - There are two types of risk, those of missing findings and those resulting from imaging.

AUA 2011 - A systematic review and meta-analysis of the volume-outcome relationship for the radical cystectomy: An update for the ongoing debate - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Several studies have shown that high volume surgeons who operate at high volume institutions have better short-term morbidity and mortality outcomes for many complex operations and radical cystectomy is no exception.

AUA 2011 - Cancer stem cell marker expression in muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Cancer stem cells are thought to have the capacity to survive chemotherapy and then replicate, thus explaining why patients can have an apparent complete response to chemotherapy and subsequently relapse.

AUA 2011 - Cardiovascular optimisation via the oespophageal Doppler reduces gastrointestinal complications in radical cystectomy - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Ileus after radical cystectomy is one of the most common and difficult complications to manage and is the main cause for extended length of hospital stay.

AUA 2011 - Diabetic men are more likely to require more aggressive treatment for erectile dysfunction - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - The researchers sought to determine if diabetic men are associated with greater ED severity.

AUA 2011 - Does the lymphatic drainage pattern of the lateral bladder wall make a bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy (PLND) unnecessary in strictly laterally localized invasive bladder cancer? Results of a multimodality mapping study - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - An extended bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection has a measurable complication rate that can be significant in the elderly population.

AUA 2011 - Effect of long-acting testosterone injections for treatment of hypogonadism after brachytherapy for prostate cancer - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) -The research group evaluated the effect of long-acting testosterone injection for treatment of hypogonadism after brachytherapy for prostate cancer.

AUA 2011 - Exploratory efficacy analysis conducted for long-term extension study in patients with prostate cancer treated with Firmagon® or crossed over to Firmagon from leuprolide - Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - May 16, 2011

Findings presented at annual urology meeting

AUA 2011 - Influence of smoking history on bladder cancer patient outcome following radical cystectomy - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Smoking is a major risk factor for development of bladder cancer and is a significant health hazard.

AUA 2011 - Location of tumor in the bladder predicts likelihood of lymph node metastases at radical cystectomy and disease recurrence - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Identifying patients with muscle invasive disease who are at increased risk of nodal metastases would help select those that need more extensive lymph node dissection.

AUA 2011 - Lymph node yield and predictors of extended lymphadenectomy at the time of robot-assisted radical cystectomy: Results from the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - A concern with using minimally invasive procedures to perform a radical cystectomy has been soft tissue margins and lymph node yield.

AUA 2011 - Modifiable lifestyle behaviors and incidence of lower urinary tract symptoms and urine leakage in a population-based study of men and women - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - The authors identified that physically active men are less likely to develop LUTS.

AUA 2011 - Muscle-invasive bladder cancer in the elderly - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - The authors evaluated 118 patients over the age of 75 with muscle invasive bladder cancer. 63 underwent cystectomy.

AUA 2011 - Preoperative predictors of pathologic upstaging following cystectomy for T1 bladder cancer - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Patients with T1 bladder cancer have curable cancer if they undergo radical cystectomy, but many will be over treated.

AUA 2011 - Progression and remission of urologic symptoms: longitudinal results from the Boston area community health (BACH) survey - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Authors noted progression and remission of LUTS in individuals over time, and recommended a cautious approach to surgical treatment given the possibility of future remission.

AUA 2011 - Prospective evaluation of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolus in patients undergoing radical cystectomy - Session Highlights

WASHINGTON, DC USA (UroToday.com) - Development of a deep vein thrombosis after radical cystectomy is a life-threatening complication.

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