Radiation Oncology

Urologic Oncology   

Questions discussed in this category


How does time since radiation, original PSA and grade group/gleason score inform your decision? 

How do you decide between ureteral stent and percutaneous nephrostomy for decompression?

For example, a patient that received an MRI after biopsy that demonstrates a PIRADS 5 lesion in anterior TZ which likely was not sampled on biopsy. Wo...

Which patients specifically benefit from both mpMRI and PET-PSMA?

GS 4+4. PSA low (1-2). CT and bone scan negative for lymphadenopathy or metastatic disease.  Prostate MRI pending. 

Should cystectomy remain standard of care? (Recently debated in JAMA Oncology: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2520055...

Is there a role for salvage LN dissection or salvage RT to the node? And is there a role for systemic therapy (ADT or chemotherapy) in addition? If yo...


Papers discussed in this category


The New England journal of medicine, 2015-08-20

Urology, 2000-11-01

Abdom Radiol (NY), 2019 Aug 29

N. Engl. J. Med., 2012-04-19

European urology, 2017-07

J Urol, 2019 01

J Urol, 2021 Jan 27

Eur Urol, 2020 Jan 08

Lancet, 2016 Mar 19

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017-07-10

The Lancet. Oncology, 2023 May 12

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2023 Jul 28

BJU international, 2017 May 29

European urology, 2022 Apr 18

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-05-10

The New England journal of medicine, 2020 Mar 05

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Jan 20

JAMA oncology, 2023 Mar 01

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2000 Sep 01

Pract Radiat Oncol, 2023 Jul 11

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2024 Feb 28

Eur Urol, 2020 Dec 10

Eur. Urol., 2018 Jul 03

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2019-02-01

Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases, 2019-05

J Clin Oncol, 2023 Apr 27

Current urology reports, 2003-06