Timing procedures for men's prostate health is a challenge due to a lack of clear data
Speaker : Bilal I. Chughtai, MD Chief of Urology, Plainview Hospital
Associate Professor of UrologyDonald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
*Key Takeaways: Society of Benign Prostate Disease (SoBPD) 2025 Annual Meeting
This summary includes key insights from the 2025 SoBPD Annual Meeting webinar, highlighting the latest advancements and discussions on benign prostate disease management.
Transcript:
I would say that right now there's a lot of good questions like we don't know the timing of procedures. In a lot of ways, we're using the patient's bother to dictate what we're going to do and when we're going to do it, right? And the timing of procedures is a challenge
And we don't have great data on when to do these things. I think we alluded to the idea of like these home-based tests, proudP FC being one of them. And does that allow us to diagnosed earlier or at least define a norm for men.
It's so important right for I think what really needs to start at a community level, at a government level around the world is just talking to men about bladder health, right? Whether it's bladder health screening starting at picking age 50, for example, men know about colonoscopies and so forth.
So understanding, just getting that dialogue, hey, it's not transplantable. It's important to take care of. You're having symptoms, just like if you're having chest pain, that's your heart having problems. If you're having urgency, frequency getting up in the middle of the night, it could be your bladder having a problem. So get some data, talk to a primary care doc.
And start layering on data. And men are very good right with their watches, their smart watches, their phones.
Now we have remote diagnostics, whether it's proudP or so forth.
But yeah, I think combination of the right dialogue with the right data to now drive de-obstruction when warranted.
I think a lot of men, I think a lot of men aren't necessarily attuned to their bodies or they ignore some of the symptoms and that's why we see men presenting with later stage disease compared to women, whether it's the bladder or the heart or you name it.
So, you know, a number of years ago, a lot of the newer interventions, we're all about just like take the questionnaire. You'd be watching the Super Bowl commercial. Be like, take the questionnaire, whether it was for whatever BPH device. And it was sort of like a simplified IPSS. And it kind of just got them thinking like, oh, maybe I do have symptoms. Maybe I should take this questionnaire. And it's like, do you wake up at night to pee? Is your flow slow?