Surveillance of non-muscle-invasive #BladderCancer with blue-light cystoscopy: a meta-analysis
Reza Sari Motlagh Urologic Oncology Research MedUni Vienna Shahrokh F. Shariat

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I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

En bloc TURBT (for <1 cm tumors) results in

Similar recurrence rates: 18.4% vs 16.7% at 1 yr

Similar residual disease on reTUR 56% vs 55.9% (small subset)

More retrieval of DM: 80.7% vs 71.1%

Less bladder perforation: 5.6% vs 12%

Similar OR time: 26 vs 25 min

'Your doctor ordered a CT scan... it is not medically necessary to use this test... there are other tests such as... a CT scan of the abdomen, that might help.'

The residents have unionized

Congratulations to Vincent Laudone on receiving our UrologyMSK teacher of the year award! Carissa Chu Ben Beech Sari Khaleel marlon perera Song Jiang Wesley Yip

Dr. Laudone is a phenomenal role model, teacher, and mentor. “Teacher of the Year” may be an understatement.

First pictures from international trip of Dr. Li from Minneapolis VA Health Care System with Rachel Mann, MD to Honduras Joe Pariser Chris Corbett Ashley V Alford @GiuliaILane Kristin Chrouser Vikram M. Narayan, MD Song Jiang Sari Khaleel Subodh Regmi

THREAD: A STORY: When I was working for the Department of Veterans Affairs as the supervisor of the San Diego VA Health System Call Center as a GS-9, I wanted to create a monthly customer service award. Kind of like an “employee of the month”. 1/

Indian surgeons on YouTube are the backbone of US surgical residency training.

UrologyMSK Eur Urol Focus marlon perera Ghalib Jibara Sigrid Carlsson James Eastham Vincent Laudone Karim Touijer Study lead by UroOnc fellows: Dr Perera and Dr Jibara. This study builds on prior data evaluating the impact of re-grading based on MR/biopsy (comfirmatory bx) on clinical outcomes. More evidence that if a cancer is hard to find, then it is probably less aggressive…

Sravan Panuganti, DO, FACOS Yes. Frantic middle of the night phone call for CBI order in EMR for patient who has been on CBI all day

Very excited about this - a tremendous opportunity for phenomenal Society of Urologic Oncology training at one of the busiest centers in the Southeast Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Emory Urology Emory School of Medicine Emory University

I think health insurance companies come up with all these names to obscure the fact that they own US healthcare. Optum is owned by United, CVS is Aetna, express scripts is Cigna. They are all vertically integrating & gouging patients/independent pharmacies for insane profits.

Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Amazing how Epic EMR unveils a window into surgical costs at the hospital level

First observation - robotic single port RALP has absurdly higher case costs than multiport, lol

If Darth Vader had to make a commercial about why the Death Star was great and would solve many problems, it would look like this EviCore By Evernorth ad.

WSJ covered resident unions today.

Article dropped 3h ago; 400+ comments already.

My fave is “There was no issue with work-life balance until women became MDs!”

But don’t worry, Stockholm syndrome, the bootstraps brigade, and socialized medicine fearmongering are there, too.

Results from neoadj UTUC trial led by JonathanColeman. Split dose cis-based NAC led to 19% pathCR rate. Have seen this in practice, with some choosing switch maintenance in lieu of neph-u to avoid dialysis. Great study, adds to EA8141 and POUT. ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

Pramod John (CEO) Dr. Thomas Morrow (CSO) of Vivio Health just been denied a treatment in a Peer-to-Peer of a NCCN preferred regimen for RCC, and told that your team of 4 oncologists knows how to read clinical trials better than NCCN and the RCC group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center