Ep. 191 Optimizing Radiation Therapy: Role of Perirectal Spacers with Dr. Eric Chenven and Dr. Nadim Nasr
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I've certainly started with the space ore and that became very comfortable with that pretty quickly. I have tried the barra gel and I've certainly heard from some and been told by others the attraction to it. I don't see the attraction. I like the way the space ore injects and kind of does not really diffuse through the tissue like the Barragel does. I think in the end, if you, whatever you're using, if you do a good job and get adequate spacer where you want it to go, I just feel it's a little easier for me when I'm injecting the spacer. I know I can kind of direct it where I need it to go with the needle. And from there, it just, the Barragel, the changing back and forth, and then just the way it
The way it doesn't really move the tissue so well until you've injected a lot of it just didn't sit well with me.
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Backtable Urology Podcast, your source for all things urology. You can find all previous episodes of our podcast on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and on backtable.com. Now a quick word from our sponsors. Today's Backtable podcast is sponsored by Boston Scientific's Urology Division. Boston Scientific is dedicated to transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. This includes absorbable hydrogel spacers that are intended to temporarily position the anterior rectal wall away from the prostate during radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Bustle Scientific SpaceOR hydrogel system is a polyethylene glycol-based hydrogel design to temporarily create space between the prostate and the rectum and reduce the radiation dose delivered to the rectum during radiation therapy. SpaceOR hydrogel has been clinically shown to help reduce the side effects of radiation.
For prostate cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy, maintaining quality of life may be just as important as treating the cancer. Minimize side effects, maximize patients' quality of life. Now, back to the show. Hello, everyone. I will go back to Backtable Urology Podcast. This is Jose Silva, your host this week, and happy to introduce our guests. We have Dr. Eric Chenven and Dr. Nassim Nasser. Dr. Chenven, he's a certified American Board of Urologists and is a member of the American Urological Association, American College of Surgeons, End Urology Society, and the American Medical Association. He did his urology residency at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, then completed fellowship in endorheology and laparoscopy at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Chen then is the chief of urology at Broward Health Medical Center.
He sits on the cancer committee and the surgical quality assurance committee, where he was formerly also medical director for laparoscopy and minimally invasive urology. Dr. Nasser is a trained radiation oncologist. He completed internal medicine residency at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He then went on to do his radiation oncology residency in Georgetown University Hospital, where he's still a clinical assistant professor. Currently, he's part of Arlington Radiation Oncology in Virginia. Gentlemen, welcome to the back table.
Thank you. Thank you.
So let's start by knowing each of your practice, essentially looking to see what's the relationship between the urology and radiation oncologist.
So Eric, can you describe your practice? I would say since my fellowship, I joined a general urology practice. I joined two other urologists in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I was the first urologist in about 10 years to join the practice. And that's now, I can't believe, 21 years ago. We practice at a level one trauma center, which is also a cancer center in Broward County, Florida. And really both hospitals actually have cancer center between Broward Health Medical Center and Holy Cross. I think I do the full breadth of general urology. I certainly like to have an emphasis, as many of us urologists do, in oncology.
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