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- Ashish Kamat is joined by Bernard Bochner to discuss patient quality of life after a radical cystectomy. Dr. Bochner highlights a number of factors that can be affected by having a radical cystectomy which is a significant surgery. Drs. Kamat and Bochner offer insights on assembling a team to assure the best quality of life for these patients. Biographies: Bernard H. Bochner, MD, FACS, Attending S...
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- Siamak (Sia) Daneshmand joins Ashish Kamat in a discussion on the role of blue-light cystoscopy (BLC) in detecting invasive bladder tumors. Providing background on the beneficial use of BLC in carcinoma in situ (CIS), Dr. Daneshmand highlights the evidence on the potential of finding additional TA tumors with the use of BLC. He showcases data from a BJUI multi-institutional registry publication on...
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- Ashish Kamat and Sarah Psutka, discuss how to optimize radical cystectomy patients long before the patient even enters the operating room. Dr. Psutka touches on the complications of the procedure, as well as ways that we can try to limit those complications. They also discuss risk stratification and additional testing for radical cystectomy candidates. Biographies: Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MSc, Urolog...
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- Ashish Kamat and Molly Ingersoll, discuss mucosal immunity in the bladder with specific reference to gender differences and how that affects biology. Dr. Ingersoll shares how the immune system knows how to kill specific tumor cells, and how those are mechanistically different between sexes. This conversation also addresses the need to form larger collaborative research efforts to really attack the...
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- Urologic Oncologist Phillip Abbosh joins Alicia Morgans discussing the importance of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) Young Investigator Awards for early-career investigators to join the bladder cancer scientific community and those thinking about getting their projects and their careers off the ground in bladder cancer. Phillip Abbosh a BCAN YI Award recipient in 2018 shares details of...
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- Alicia Morgans is joined by Elizabeth Plimack to discuss the importance of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network's (BCAN) Young Investigator Award Program. BCAN is the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network which started as a small group of urology-based advocates and has grown to "the" organization for bladder cancer advocacy. The Young Investigator Award program strives to grow the science in bladder can...
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- Urologic Oncologist, Deborah Kaye joins Ashish Kamat in a conversation on financial toxicity among bladder cancer patients highlighting the costs of bladder cancer, what is financial toxicity, and lastly, some of the research done on financial toxicity in bladder cancer. Biographies: Deborah Kaye, MD, MS, Urologic Oncologist, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Urology, Duke Cancer Center,...
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- Alicia Morgans is joined by Ashish Kamat and Peter Black to discuss their recent book on bladder cancer, Bladder Cancer: A Practical Guide. This book provides a practical, comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of bladder cancer, and is a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in urothelial tumors. Biographies: Peter Black, MD, Senior Research Scientist, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Professor...
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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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