The 2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, held in San Francisco, CA, hosted an exciting Best of Journals session, highlighting key research over the past year. Speaking from the meeting, Andrea Apolo, MD, of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, who presented for urothelial carcinoma in this session, discusses her selection for best papers. Dr Apolo highlights the difficulty in choosing, due to many high impact bladder cancer publications being released.