Genitourinary Cancer

Diagnostic Radiation May Up Risk for Testicular Cancer

Publish Date November 23, 2020

Testicular germ cell tumor risk elevated with exposure to X-ray and CT below the waist, GI series or barium enema.

Smoking Tied to Worse Bladder Cancer Outcomes After Surgery

Publish Date October 13, 2020

Poor outcomes include lower response rate to chemotherapy, higher mortality, recurrence.

Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Chemo More Effective Than RNU Alone in UTUC

By

Natasha Persaud

Publish Date October 7, 2020

As current guidelines only include a weak recommendation to offer perioperative chemotherapy to patients with muscle-invasive upper tract urothelial carcinoma, a new meta-analysis including evidence up to February 2020 provides potentially useful information.

First-Line Avelumab Maintenance Ups Survival in Urothelial Carcinoma

By

Jody A. Charnow

Publish Date September 30, 2020

Avelumab improves overall and progression-free survival among patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma whose disease has not progressed while on first-line chemotherapy.

Neoadjuvant Chemo May Improve Overall Survival in UTUC

By

Natasha Persaud

Publish Date September 24, 2020

Survival was significantly improved in patients with greater disease burden.