: Urothelial carcinoma ranks as the fourth most common cancer in men in the U.S; upon diagnosis, 10-15% have metastasized, mostly to lymph nodes, liver, lung, bone, and adrenal glands. Very few cases of skull invasion have been reported, and there is no established definite treatment. : A 64-year-old Taiwanese male presented with metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) of bladder with skull invasion. A sunken forehead without painful sensation could be palpated. After failure of chemotherapy, the patient received immunotherapy pembrolizumab, and complete remission of distant metastasis with reossification of osteolytic skull were noted. : Immunotherapy has been reported to show significant remission in mUC, but mostly in solid organs or bone. While skull metastasis usually suggests late progression of the disease, immunotherapy has fewer systemic adverse effects than chemotherapy, and should be taken into consideration as a first-line therapy.
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Investig Clin Urol
January 2025
Department of Urology, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, Korea.
Purpose: To describe the incidence and mortality of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) from 2002-2020 using data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service, which contains data from the entire Korean population.
Materials And Methods: Reimbursement records for 43,255 patients diagnosed with primary UTUC (according to the International Classification of Disease 10th revision code C65 and C66) between 2002-2020 were retrieved. The study period was split into four: period I (2002-2005), period II (2006-2010), period III (2011-2015), and period IV (2016-2020).
Cureus
December 2024
Radiology, Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad, IND.
Urological malignancies during pregnancy are exceedingly rare, with bladder cancer posing significant diagnostic and management challenges. This study describes a 28-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed with non-invasive papillary urothelial carcinoma, presenting with painless hematuria at 22 weeks of gestation. The diagnostic process included ultrasound and MRI, both of which confirmed a solitary polypoidal lesion.
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January 2025
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Chromothripsis, a hallmark of cancer, is characterized by extensive and localized DNA rearrangements involving one or a few chromosomes. However, its genome-wide frequency and characteristics in urothelial carcinoma (UC) remain largely unknown. Here, by analyzing single-regional and multi-regional whole-genome sequencing (WGS), we present the chromothripsis blueprint in 488 UC patients.
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January 2025
Department of Urology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: The treatment landscape of metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) has evolved with the emergence of programmed cell death protein 1/ligand 1 (PD-1/L1) inhibitors. This study assessed mUC treatment patterns in Europe.
Methods: Data were derived from the Adelphi mUC Disease Specific Programme™ (November 2020 to April 2021), a large, cross-sectional, patient record-based survey of physicians in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
January 2025
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Objective: To test whether race/ethnicity affects stage or grade distribution at upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) diagnosis.
Methods: Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database 2004-2020, UTUC patients were identified. Multivariable logistic regression models tested for the association between race/ethnicity and stage as well as grade at diagnosis according to renal pelvis vs.
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