Adam J. Gadzinski, MD, MS, on Up-and-Coming Research for Urologic Oncology

In an interview with CancerNetwork®,Adam J. Gadzinski, MD, MS, urologic oncology fellow and an acting instructor of Urologic Oncology at the Urology Clinic at UWMC, discussed encouraging research in the field of urologic oncology.

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From a new treatment standpoint, some of [the most interesting] areas in prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer [are] the continued immunotherapy developments. Another one that’s very relevant to our world today is continued disparities research. [With] disparities, everyone always initially tends to think of gender and racial disparities; I think inherent into that [are] also very significant socioeconomic and also geographic disparities.

I think there’s going to be new ways of providing urologic care and telemedicine will be one tool for that. I do not think that…telemedicine will fix all disparity access issues for urologic care. I think that that is an over promise for this technology. But I think it can help and it can be used as a tool [for] the person who lives 500 miles away from a referral center [who has] a unique cancer that probably should…at least have treatment guided by that referral center. [This technology] makes it just a lot easier for them to get the input because they don’t have to drive 500 miles or fly that far. They can just have a telemedicine visit from their couch and say, ‘Okay, my local provider can do this, this is great. Thank you so much for your guidance and input,’ and [get] on with their day.