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Chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5FU) and mitomycin C (MMC), when combined with radiotherapy, leads to better locoregional control over a 10-year window in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), a recent study has found.

In the treatment of young infants with nonbacteraemic urinary tract infection (UTI), administering intravenous (IV) antibiotics for less than 48 hours appears to work well in the absence of meningitis, with low rates of treatment failure and serious complications, according to a study.

Pelvic floor muscle exercises appear to exert favourable effects on urinary incontinence in men who have undergone prostate cancer surgery, according to a study.

Oral tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide appears to be as good as intravenous ertapenem in the treatment of patients with complicated urinary tract infection (UTI) and acute pyelonephritis, with the two having a similar safety profile, according to data from a phase III study.

Prostate cancer patients who are also smokers have a greater risk of death, an effect that is further exacerbated by obesity, reports a recent study.

Short-term concurrent androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) results in markedly worse overall survival (OS) among intermediate-risk (IR) prostate cancer patients on dose-escalated intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with daily image-guided RT, reveals a study.