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Navigating GU Oncology Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Petros Grivas

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Recorded Date: March 24, 2020 In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Petros Grivas discusses the importance of collaboration and communication among clinicians across the cancer care community. Hosted by Alicia Morgans, Dr. Grivas outlines the initiative of the multi-institutional collaborative registry, the CCC19 registry which is being spearheaded by Dr. Jeremy Warner and colleagues. This...

How COVID-19 Is Impacting Cancer Care in NYC - William Oh

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Recorded Date: March 21, 2020 William Oh, a GU medical oncologist practicing at Mount Sinai in New York City, joins Alicia Morgans to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. With testing being ramped up at Mt. Sinai and the disease evolving at rapid speed, Dr. Oh discusses testing criteria for COVID-19 in cancer patients, how they approach safely discharging cancer patients from the inpatient...

The Landscape of Advanced Bladder Cancer: A Review of the Last 30-Years - Cora Sternberg

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Cora Sternberg joins Alicia Morgans at ASCO GU 2020 and discusses the significant advancements in the treatment of advanced bladder cancer looking back over the last 30 years. MVAC was regulatory approved as the first line treatment in metastatic bladder cancer thirty years ago. Cora discusses the recent progress that is offering significant improvements in the overall survival for those patients...

PSMA PET/CT Imaging for Staging High-risk Prostate Cancer Prior to Curative-intent Surgery or Radiotherapy (proPSMA) - Michael Hofman and Declan Murphy

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Declan Murphy and Michael Hofman join Alicia Morgans to discuss the results from proPSMA study "A prospective randomized multi-center study of the impact of Ga-68 PSMA-PET/CT imaging for staging high-risk prostate cancer prior to curative-intent surgery or radiotherapy." Conventional imaging using CT and bone scan has insufficient sensitivity when staging men with high-risk localized prostate canc...

COVID-19 and Cancer Care at St. Barts Cancer Institute in London UK - Thomas Powles

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Recorded Date: March 19, 2020 Thomas Powles from Barts Cancer Institute in London joins Alicia Morgans to discuss how the GU medical oncology and urologic oncology communities are preparing for and caring for people with genitourinary malignancies in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Powles provides a European perspective on the state of the virus today. As the cancer center director Dr....

PSMA PET Diagnostic Imaging in the Current Era - Jeremie Calais

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Phillip Koo interviews Jeremie Calais about PSMA PET imaging in patients with localized prostate cancer. Professor Calais discusses the advantages of whole-body PSMA PET imaging in patients with presumed localized cancer, as well as those likely to have extraprostatic disease. The PSMA whole-body imaging modality can be used to identify cancer lesions with high sensitivity in patients. PSMA PET is...

Safe and Effective Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Toni Choueiri

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Date Recorded: March 19, 2020 Joining Alicia Morgans is Toni Choueiri to share the measures he is taking at his clinic to support safe and effective cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Choueiri, the Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, shares that in addition to following strict screening processes, his team is working to prioritize...

COVID-19 Impacting GU Cancer Care in New Orleans at Tulane Cancer Center - A. Oliver Sartor

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Recorded Date: March 19, 2020 Oliver Sartor joins Alicia Morgans sharing his perspective of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and the current disruption in healthcare. Dr. Sartor discusses variables his institution is experiencing with personnel resources, the importance of staying in close communication with patients and considerations of their care in this challenging time. Drs. Sartor and M...

Considerations of GU Cancer Patients Treatments in the New Reality of COVID-19 - Petros Grivas

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Recorded Date: March 18, 2020 Petros Grivas, Brian Rini, and Ali Khaki discuss the current status of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its impacts on the current ongoing care for patients receiving treatment for cancer and for patients currently on clinical trials. It is clear that there is no data on oncologic outcomes as the virus is rapidly spreading. Drs. Rini, Khaki, and Grivas discuss aspects...

Frontline Treatment in Advanced Kidney Cancer - Bradley McGregor

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In this episode of Kidney Cancer Today, Bradley McGregor joins Monty Pal and Jaime Landman to speak about the major practice-changing studies that have come out over the past year in the frontline setting and the evolution of therapy in the renal cell carcinoma space. Biographies: Bradley McGregor, MD, Clinical Director, Senior Physician, Instructor in Medicine, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncol...