What a Match Day! Congrats to our new crew of interns VCU Urology! #streamteam Amer. Urol. Assn. Mid-Atlantic Section of the AUA | MAAUA

🚨Publication alert 1️⃣Comparison between FT and whole-gland treatment for PCa is necessary to highlight differences in oncological and functional outcomes 2️⃣Due to several limitations, this study is not positioned to fully address these critical issues 🔗bit.ly/418p7Wb

Just published in Eur Urol Focus Wei Phin Tan, MD, MHS Alexander Kenigsberg Patrick Gomella MD, MPH Michael Rothberg, MD Kae Jack Tay Dr. Art Rastinehad @BiancoFJ_ Rafael Sanchez-Salas Thomas Polascik

Beginning of the HIFU era VCU Urology VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center ! Excited to bring focal therapy to Richmond and Central Virginia. Added Bonus: being proctored by a great friend Amir Lebastchi, MD USC Urology from the @NCICCR_UroOnc family. Focal One Focal Therapy Society

We're excited to welcome VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center as a part of our global community and the first hospital in Virginia to offer Focal One Robotic HIFU as an option for their prostate cancer patients. Congratulations to @APKenisgberg, MD and the team on the successful launch of their Focal

Excited to be able to offer this to our patients VCU Health VCU Urology VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center! Fortunate to have a fantastic interdisciplinary team in place to provide world class precision treatment for prostate cancer patients.

“It’s not an option for everyone, but for many men it is, and it really could reduce side effects" - #VCUMassey doctors use 'robotic guided device' for non-invasive prostate cancer treatment. Check it out! bit.ly/4iVlgmr Focal One

Tremendous podium by Dr. Eduard Baco—FARP trial with first RCT evidence that focal HIFU/TULSA non-inferior to prostatectomy! Paradigm shifting work and an incredible effort. Certainly seems like focal therapy ready for prime time. Focal Therapy Society Focal One Profound Medical

Our burgeoning field needed true visionaries to gain its foundations. Proud to be honoring Thomas Polascik for his tireless efforts to launch #focaltherapy from mere dreams and ideas to real life changing therapies for our patients. Thank you!

Alexander Kenigsberg John Rewcastle, PhD Focal Therapy Society Focal One Profound Medical There isn’t another way, as John knows! Can’t use mets/survival/PSA/biopsy/function! Transition to a ‘salvage’ approach with objective criteria, bespoke to each initial treatment, to control against physician bias is only realistic way

Focal Fridays VCU Urology VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center . Very satisfying to see post-HIFU treatment effect on contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Focal One Focal Therapy Society

President Biden’s diagnosis of metastatic #prostatecancer is serious—but in the past 20 years, 5-year survival has improved markedly thanks to better imaging, advanced therapies, and more effective care. Often men live many years—and sometimes decades—with a terrific quality of

Excited to share our latest study in NEJM AI ! 🚀 We introduce NTEP, a NIH platform that uses large language models to extract data from unstructured medical reports with 99.8% accuracy – bridging AI with real-world medical research 🔗 Free access: ai.nejm.org/stoken/default…

Alexander Kenigsberg, MD, (Alexander Kenigsberg) discusses a new option for treating prostate cancer: robotic high-intensity focused ultrasound. #pcsm | VCU Urology VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center hubs.li/Q03pK5bD0

Fantastic resident and even better guy! Will be missed VCU Urology when he leaves (but looking forward to training him up this chief year). YUO

Case Study by W.S. Azar et al.: LLM-Mediated Data Extraction from Patient Records after Radical Prostatectomy nejm.ai/4dw8Boz #HealthIT #MedicalAI

Massey is now offering a new, innovative procedure for prostate cancer biopsies, performing transperineal biopsies in downtown Richmond. This option is considered significantly safer than transrectal biopsies. masseycancercenter.org/news/massey-no…

#FOCAL2025 is in 1 WEEK! Join us live or virtually from October 9-11 for 3 days of outstanding CME content with the world's leading experts in #FocalTherapy Secure Your Spot Now: focaltherapy.com Arvin K. George, MD Abhinav Sidana

Younger patients looking for focal therapy ✅ most to gain regarding preservation of function ❎ most to lose from potential oncological outcomes Careful counselling from the beginning is key #FOCAL2025