Urology: Topics in Prostate Cancer Management (Audio-Digest Foundation Urology Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 34)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners - physicians and other healthcare professionals - with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Urology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Renal cancer
Impotence and infertility
Female stress urinary incontinence
Calculus disease
Interstitial cystitis
Pediatric urologic problems
Penile malformations
Reflux disease
Sexually transmitted diseases

The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer (PC). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Compare and contrast focal therapy vs active surveillance in the treatment of PC.

2: Recognize limitations of current biopsy techniques in selection of patients for focal therapy for PC.

3: Evaluate data on risk reduction in PC through the use of 5-a-reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs).

4: Select appropriate candidates for treatment with 5-ARIs to reduce risk for PC.

5: Consider use of assays for molecular markers of PC (PCA3, PTEN, and TMPRSS-ERG fusion) in diagnosis and prediction of clinical outcomes.