{"id":80877,"date":"2025-05-07T03:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80877\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T03:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:58:45","slug":"joy-maulik-crnp-on-the-importance-of-genetic-testing-in-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80877\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Maulik, CRNP, on the importance of genetic testing in prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\">Genetic testing can have a profound impact on prostate cancer treatment decisions, yet urologists are not ordering it nearly enough, says <strong>Joy Maulik, CRNP<\/strong>. In an interview at the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urologytimes.com\/conference\/aua\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting<\/a> in Las Vegas, Nevada, Maulik touched on the importance of genetic testing for these patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">In his view, germline and somatic testing, in addition to PSMA-PET imaging, can offer a chance to detect and treat disease early, thus extending life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">\u201cI truly think genetic testing should be incorporated as a part of daily care in prostate cancer,\u201d Maulik noted, \u201cIf we don&#8217;t do it, I think we are not taking care of the patient the right way that we need to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Maulik is a urology nurse practitioner at Chesapeake Urology in Salisbury, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Maulik also touched on the idea of understanding a wide range of guideline recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">\u201cWe should be looking at what NCCN guidelines are. We should be looking at what EUA is doing, because cancer doesn&#8217;t have emotion. No matter which continent it&#8217;s hitting you, it&#8217;s hitting you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Genetic testing can have a profound impact on prostate cancer treatment decisions, yet urologists are not ordering it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[267,70,16,15,39279],"class_list":{"0":"post-80877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-urology-times"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114464548576934547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}