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Delaying reproductive surgeries due to pandemic severely compromises personal life
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused the postponement of several sexual and reproductive health surgeries, which in turn leads to severe restrictions in the patients’ private lives and aggravates their worries about their disease, a recent study has found.

ED patients who do not respond to PDE5I may benefit from topical alprostadil–PDE5i combo
For men with erectile dysfunction (ED) who show a lack of response to oral phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5Is), combination therapy with topical alprostadil plus PDE5Is seems favourable, producing greater improvements in sexual function without compromising safety compared with topical alprostadil alone, as shown in a study.

Apalutamide for castration-resistant prostate cancer yields real-world results
Patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) who have been initiated on apalutamide in a real-world setting appear to show prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response that is strong and consistent with that reported in clinical trials, as reported in a study.

Olaparib-abiraterone combo improves PFS in mCRPC
The combination of olaparib and abiraterone in the first-line setting improved radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), results of the phase III PROpel trial showed.




