Archive for the 'Urology and Nephrology News' Category
Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancers More Likely To Spread To Other Organs
Prostate cancers that are resistant to androgen deprivation therapy are more invasive and more likely to spread to other organs than androgen dependent prostate cancers, UCLA cancer researchers have found.Virtually all prostate cancers are androgen dependent at first, but they progress and become re…
Diagnostic Center For Disease: Prostate Biopsy Spreads Prostate Cancer Cells
Breaking news from the Diagnostic Center for Disease(TM) in Sarasota, Florida, identifies a previously underestimated risk that routine prostate biopsy performed to to assess for prostate cancer spreads cancer cells and may be the reason that men have a recurrence of disease many years after the p…
No Real Differences famous In Kidney Failure Treatments
According to a recent commentary published in The Journal of theAmerican Medical organization, different treatments for acutekidney failure lead to nearly the same mortality rate and other similarclinical outcomes. The meta-analysis was performed by Neesh Pannu ofthe University of Alberta, Edmonton,…
Cougar Biotechnology Presents Positive CB7630 Phase I And Phase II info At ASCO 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium
Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CGRB) announced that results from ongoing Phase I and Phase II clinical trials of Cougar’s investigational drug, CB7630 (abiraterone acetate), were presented at the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium that is currently taking place in San Francisco, California. Th…
Urinary Reference Values For Stone Risk Factors In Children
UroToday.com - Borawski, et al in the January 2008 issue of The Journal of Urology collected 24-hour urine samples from 48 healthy subjects with no history of stone disease, endocrine abnormalities, or urological surgeries by a three and a half year period. All the children were toilet trained and …
Defining Overactive Bladder As Hypersensitivity
UroToday.com- Overactive bladder (OAB) has been defined by the worldly Continence Society (ICS) as urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, normally with frequency and nocturia, in the absence of infection, or other obvious pathology. Fully two-thirds of OAB patients do not actually experienc…
The Effect Of Shock Wave Rate On The Outcome Of Shock Wave Lithotripsy: A Meta-Analysis
UroToday.com- In that manuscript, the authors reviewed 4 randomized trials of shock wave lithotripsy comparing slow shock wave delivery (i.e. 60 shock waves/ min) to rapid shock wave delivery (120 shocks/minute), comprising 589 patients treated on 4 different lithotriptors (2 with electrohydraulic a…
Prostate-Specific Antigen Velocity And The Detection Of Gleason Score 7 To 10 Prostate Cancer
UroToday.com- Rapid prostate specific antigen velocity (PSAV) is associated with worse survival following local therapy for prostate cancer (CaP). Rapid PSAV prior to therapy is additionally associated with adverse pathologic features including higher Gleason score, seminal vesicle invasion, pelvi…
Beyond The summary: Surgical Treatment Of Peyronie’s Disease: Choosing The Best Approach To Improve Patient Satisfaction
UroToday.com - Peyronie’s disease, when associated with a severe penile deformity, causes a devastating condition psychologically and physically.It is associated with a loss of penile length and girth as well as erectile dysfunction.Original post by Dentistry News From Medical News Today
Beyond The summary: Influence Of Prostate Size On The Outcome Of Holmium Laser Enucleation Of The Prostate
UroToday.com - High-powered holmium lasers are used for ablation, resection and enucleation of the prostate, as that laser has excellent incisional, ablative and haemostatic properties.Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) is a recent step in enabling a true anatomical enucleation of pro…
Safety And Efficacy Of The Use Of Intravesical And Oral Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium For Interstitial Cystitis
UroToday.com - Clinical Trial: In an effort to improve treatment results for BPS/IC, Davis and colleagues from Glendora, California and Pittsburgh in a study supported by Ortho-McNeil examined the safety and efficacy of a combination of intravesical and oral pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS) in the …













