Although infection rates following prostate biopsy have stabilized, the rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for post-biopsy infections are increasing, a study found.
A study found that renal arteriosclerosis develops 2 decades earlier in patients with lupus nephritis compared with healthy age-matched controls.
Toxicity profile and readmission rates among patients who underwent radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection following neoadjuvant pembrolizumab are in line with previously published series reporting 90-day outcomes after RC with or without neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
A study of patients with chronic kidney disease found that regular and occasional binge drinkers had double the risk of disease progression compared with non-drinkers.
Men with anterior and posterior prostate tumors have similar rates of biochemical failure, metastasis, and cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy, a study found.
Older men are more likely to be diagnosed with higher grade prostate cancer (PCa), investigators concluded in a recent paper published in Cancer. In a cross-sectional population-based study of 20,356 men diagnosed with PCa in Norway from 2014 to 2017, a team led by Tyler M. Seibert, MD, PhD, of the University of California San…
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis for vesicoureteral reflux in young children has no adverse effect on complete blood count, serum electrolytes, or creatinine, a study found.
A small study of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and bone metastases found a trend toward better survival among patients treated with TKIs plus bone-targeted therapies vs those treated with TKIs alone.
Axitinib plus pembrolizumab is recommended as first-line therapy for patients with favorable-risk clear cell advanced renal cell carcinoma, according to an updated position statement from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.
Increasing levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 in patients with chronic kidney disease are independently associated with an increased risk of requiring maintenance dialysis or a kidney transplant, a study found.
