Scott Eggener

Truth and science matter. Support both.

Professor and Chair of Urology - UCLA

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

If goal is to minimize unnecessary treatment of GG1, empiric data from Australia shows nomenclature change AND information/messaging supplement each other

Editorial by @VickersBiostats: https://t.co/fWBOsixY2U

https://t.co/NiyH69qe5Z

@RenuEapen @declangmurphy @GladellPaner

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

UCLA Urology has a long history of impactful basic science discoveries, clinical innovation, practice-changing trials, FDA drug/imaging approvals, and mentorship of future leaders.

We are hiring a Vice-Chair of Research: https://t.co/X1A1bYgbWW

DM if questions/nominations

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

In a place presumably guided by science (or at least common sense), let's call out the crazy:

- surgeons with shaved heads wearing mandatory caps

- people nowhere near the sterile field wearing ridiculously fitted beard condoms

What else?

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

An essay worth reading, for every clinician and patient (with a PrCa paragraph)

The Quiet Half of Good Medicine https://t.co/K3287w0CfK

[Adam B. Weiner, MD @Adam_Weiner535]

🚨 New in @JUrology: "Language as a powerful influencer in #ProstateCancer" 🚨

✒️ New essay w/ @uroegg & Jessica Rett @LinguisticsUcla

📄 Words are neither neutral nor fixed

♋️We use prostate cancer, a disease spanning indolent to lethal under one name, as a case study:

👉 MRI "lesion"
👉 clinically "significant" disease
👉 "positive" margin

❓ We all know these terms shape how patients hear us

🧵 5 strategies you can use today 👇

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

@CanesDavid Weitlaner (not Weitlander) retractor

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

A prolific prostate cancer clinician-scientist leans on his undergrad English degree with a long-form thoughtful piece on 'cancer' nomenclature

[Matt Cooperberg @dr_coops]

When "cancer" is a diagnosis but not really a disease

A slightly more philosophical piece than my usual—on what we mean by cancer, and whether the word itself can sometimes do more harm than good.... let me know what you think!

Many thanks @pam3001 @aeonmag

https://t.co/PkCJFQzWLe

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

Yet another positive diet, exercise, lifestyle trial....for men on ADT at high-risk of toxicity.

The STAMINA RCT - https://t.co/ie5EYyH3xp

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

Essential for all physicians and surgeons to be aware of new policy from Jehovah's Witnesses

https://t.co/wvmC8govFy

[Dave Penson @urogeek]

@uroegg @dr_coops Scott, you know where I stand on this. Molecular features don’t matter when clinical characteristics are BENIGN. Let’s be pragmatic. Patients don’t understand. I think this would be a great topic for the plenary at the AUA annual meeting. 😉 @AmerUrological

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

"GG1 shares molecular features with higher grade cancer, we must call it cancer"

"Great point, let's look into it"

Every one also present in benign and pre cancers, fairly certain we shouldn't call those cancers

QED to that counterargument

https://t.co/PDSxwScNJM

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

Set your precons aside, read this, and buckle up!!

https://t.co/32FjM21vym

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

@LondonProstate1 A modern skill: recognizing rage bait and realizing what is says about the provocateur

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

How cool is this? Closer to the holy grail of immunosuppression-free solid organ transplant, spearheaded by one of our urologists: Jeff Veale

A first of its kind organ transplant technique tried on a human subject https://t.co/PHGf4afbbz via @nbcnews @UclaUrology

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

No surprise, Dr Scotland is a superstar.

https://t.co/AL9JSj877J

@DrKScotland @UclaUrology

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

@DrewMoghanaki @dr_coops @SFreedlandMD I was similarly publicly lambasted around that time by a very senior physician for not doing active surveillance under an IRB protocol.

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

Release the hounds......try to stay civil folks

@TylerSbrt @AbhinavSidana @EmbertonMark @daviesbj
https://t.co/TYumFOQNda

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

Yet again, the VA aspirationally showing us how prostate cancer should be managed!

https://t.co/mLaFhRBRFH

@dr_coops

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

@JUrology is our public square to hash out ideas, is essential education, and motivates us to be better urologists

Have had a long relationship with J Urol and shared some thoughts prior to passing the mantle to Dr Pavlovich @brady_urology

https://t.co/XjBEJWD7UQ

@siemensr

[Scott Eggener @uroegg]

Great study. Need more of these

My kinda sorta version of this: "try tamsulosin for a few weeks; if it isn't helping, stop it"

Tamsulosin Deprescribing for Tamsulosin Deprescribing for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Older Men https://t.co/Vq5rprMopx