Urological Oncology: New Insights into Diagnosis and Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Urological oncology is a constantly evolving field. Each year brings forward new insights into diagnostic methods and treatment approaches, encompassing surgical techniques, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiotherapeutic strategies, which significantly influence clinical practice and shape guideline recommendations.

The scope of these innovations is consistently focused on maximizing benefits related to oncological outcomes, including overall survival, recurrence-free survival, quality of life, functional outcomes, among others. Precision in diagnostic methods is continually improving, as seen in techniques such as MRI–ultrasound prostate fusion biopsy, MRI in muscle-invasive cancer, and prostate cancer diagnosis. Surgical techniques have made significant progress over the past decade, with a focus on minimally invasive procedures that seek to achieve precise treatment while preserving function; examples include ultrapreservative radical prostatectomy, totally clampless partial nephrectomy, and totally intracorporeal urinary diversions and neobladders. Regarding medical and radiological therapies, new strategies are constantly emerging and being studied with regard to neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy indications, with dose adjustments to achieve disease control and reduce side-effects.

Urologic oncology is a comprehensive field, requiring interdisciplinary cooperation with the primary goal of enhancing both quality of life and disease control. This Special Issue is dedicated to publishing contributions centered around innovative strategies in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tumors, contributing to the growing body of evidence in the field.

Dr. Aldo Brassetti
Guest Editor

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• minimally invasive surgical procedures
• robotic surgical procedures
• laparoscopy
• augmented reality
• prostatectomy
• nephrectomy
• cystectomy
• diagnosis
• immunotherapy
• chemotherapy