European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.017
{"title":"Reply to Hein V. Stroomberg, Klaus Brasso, and Andreas Røder’s Letter to the Editor re: Michael Baboudjian, Romain Diamand, Alessandro Uleri, et al. Does Overgrading on Targeted Biopsy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging–visible Lesions in Prostate Cancer Lead to Overtreatment? Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2024.02.003","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141156134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.028
{"title":"High-performing, Accessible, and Affordable Imaging in Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Is Whole-body Magnetic Resonance Imaging the Answer?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141319292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.024
{"title":"EVEREST: Attempting the Summit with Adjuvant Everolimus To Treat High-risk Renal Cell Carcinoma After Surgery","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141319291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.011
{"title":"Reply to Anwar R. Padhani, Frederic LeCouvet, Giuseppe Petralia, and Dow-Mu Koh’s Letter to the Editor re: Alonso Garcia-Ruiz, Carlos Macarro, Francesca Zacchi, et al. Whole-body Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Treatment Response Biomarker in Castration resistant Prostate Cancer with Bone Metastases: The iPROMET Clinical Trial. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2024.02.016","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140961325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.019
{"title":"PRECISE v2: An Enhanced Framework To Guide Future Research on the Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141428533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.020
{"title":"All Biochemical Recurrences Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal than Others","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.05.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141319289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.04.028
{"title":"Underactive Bladder According to the European Association of Urology Guidelines","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.04.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.04.028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140924125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.04.037
{"title":"Performance of 4Kscore as a Reflex Test to Prostate-specific Antigen in the GÖTEBORG-2 Prostate Cancer Screening Trial","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.04.037","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.04.037","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objective</h3><p>We investigated whether adding 4Kscore as a reflex test to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) could improve the screening algorithm for prostate cancer (PC).</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In the GÖTEBORG-2 PC screening trial, 38 000men (50–60 yr) were invited to PSA testing and, if elevated, followed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For 571 men with PSA ≥3.0 ng/ml and evaluable outcomes, 4Kscore was calculated. The performance using a prespecified 4Kscore cutoff of 7.5% was evaluated.</p></div><div><h3>Key findings and limitations</h3><p>The area under the curve for 4Kscore to identify intermediate- and high-risk PC was 0.84 (95% confidence interval 0.79–0.89), and the positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were 15% (0.12–0.20) and 99% (97–100%), respectively. Of the 54 men diagnosed with intermediate- or high-grade PC, two had a 4Kscore cutoff below 7.5%, both with organ-confined intermediate-risk PC. Per 1000 men with elevated PSA, adding 4Kscore would have resulted in avoidance of MRI for 408 (41%) men, biopsies for 95 (28% reduction) men, and diagnosis of 23 low-grade cancers (23% reduction) while delaying the diagnosis of four men with intermediate-grade cancers (4%).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions and clinical implications</h3><p>Including 4Kscore as a reflex test for men with elevated PSA reduces the need for MRI and biopsy markedly, and results in less overdiagnosis of low-grade PC at the cost of delaying the diagnosis of intermediate-grade PC in a few men. These results add further evidence for including new blood-based biomarkers in addition to PSA to improve the harm and benefit ratio of PC screening and reduce the need for resource-demanding MRI and biopsies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0302283824023790/pdfft?md5=7d0e2d2d1eb971419908d4b78945e382&pid=1-s2.0-S0302283824023790-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141077404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European urologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.03.014
{"title":"PRECISE Version 2: Updated Recommendations for Reporting Prostate Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients on Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.03.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eururo.2024.03.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objective</h3><p>The Prostate Cancer Radiological Estimation of Change in Sequential Evaluation (PRECISE) recommendations standardise the reporting of prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients on active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer. An international consensus group recently updated these recommendations and identified the areas of uncertainty.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A panel of 38 experts used the formal RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method consensus methodology. Panellists scored 193 statements using a 1–9 agreement scale, where 9 means full agreement. A summary of agreement, uncertainty, or disagreement (derived from the group median score) and consensus (determined using the Interpercentile Range Adjusted for Symmetry method) was calculated for each statement and presented for discussion before individual rescoring.</p></div><div><h3>Key findings and limitations</h3><p>Participants agreed that MRI scans must meet a minimum image quality standard (median 9) or be given a score of ‘X’ for insufficient quality. The current scan should be compared with both baseline and previous scans (median 9), with the PRECISE score being the maximum from any lesion (median 8). PRECISE 3 (stable MRI) was subdivided into 3-V (visible) and 3-NonV (nonvisible) disease (median 9). Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System/Likert ≥3 lesions should be measured on T2-weighted imaging, using other sequences to aid in the identification (median 8), and whenever possible, reported pictorially (diagrams, screenshots, or contours; median 9). There was no consensus on how to measure tumour size. More research is needed to determine a significant size increase (median 9). PRECISE 5 was clarified as progression to stage ≥T3a (median 9).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions and clinical implications</h3><p>The updated PRECISE recommendations reflect expert consensus opinion on minimal standards and reporting criteria for prostate MRI in AS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12223,"journal":{"name":"European urology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":25.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0302283824022322/pdfft?md5=184b8d408f6e3148fcdfe14135f30a15&pid=1-s2.0-S0302283824022322-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140332380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}