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Effective mentorship is important for developing trainees and faculty in urology. Crucial aspects of mentorship are necessary to create long-lasting mentorship relationships, to enhance faculty mentorship and to promote diversity and equity in urology. Innovative strategies to address challenges and opportunities are necessary to enhance the legacy of mentorship.
Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy has similar oncological outcomes to open retropubic prostatectomy, but improved potency outcomes. Surgeon skill and degree of nerve sparing, patient age and preoperative potency are the greatest predictors of postoperative potency outcomes. Bhat and colleagues present potency and quality-of-life outcomes from a very high-volume robotic surgery study.
In this prospective trial in oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the first of its kind, stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy was delivered successfully in lieu of systemic therapy. This strategy should be considered in selected patients with oligometastatic RCC.
Genitourinary microorganisms could have detrimental effects on male fertility owing to increased production of reactive oxygen species and generation of oxidative stress, which can lead to sperm DNA damage. Diagnostic genitourinary microorganism screening could help in understanding the reasons for infertility and refine infertility diagnosis and treatment.
In this Review, Baures et al. discuss prostate luminal progenitor cells, covering their functional properties and potential role in prostate pathology. In addition, the authors describe different approaches to classifying these cells, and unify multiple identifiers that have been used to define prostate luminal progenitor cells.
In this Perspective, Tasoglu describes toilet-based continuous health monitoring using urine, reviewing currently available smart toilets and discussing the development and implementation of devices and methods that will shift the focus of medicine to the well-being of humans.
Penile cancer is a growing health-care concern worldwide. Despite its rarity, penile cancer has a disproportionate impact on some countries, as the location with the highest incidences are invariably those with low resources and few registries or trials. In this Perspective, the authors discuss how global collaboration and centralization of care can help to improve management of penile cancer worldwide, but especially in areas where resources are limited.
In this Perspective, the authors describe our current knowledge of the involvement of galectins in sexually transmitted infections in the female genital tract. They also discuss unresolved questions in this emerging field and highlight novel opportunities to reduce transmission and dissemination of sexually transmitted pathogens using galectin-targeted agents.
