January 16th 2024
“These [patient-reported outcome] data are supportive of the use of [enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab] as a 1L therapy option for patients who are cisplatin-ineligible," write the authors.
January 15th 2024
Dr. Agarwal on significance of ultra-low PSA levels achieved with apalutamide in mCSPC
Neeraj Agarwal, MD, discusses an analysis from the phase 3 TITAN trial that explored the correlation between PSA response and survival among patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer receiving apalutamide.
Alkaline water unlikely to prevent kidney stones, study finds
January 11th 2024"While alkaline water products have a higher pH than regular water, they have a negligible alkali content–which suggests that they can't raise urine pH enough to affect the development of kidney and other urinary stones," says Roshan M. Patel, MD.
Coding Q&A: Billing for female total urethrectomy with complete cystectomy
January 5th 2024"When we think about a typical procedure for performing a radical cystectomy for cancer with an ileal conduit, that would typically involve lymph node dissection, and therefore CPT 51595 would be best chosen to report that combined procedure," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.