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First and second-line treatments in metastatic renal cell carcinoma

2 May 2025 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Over the past two decades, the treatment landscape for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) has evolved significantly, leading to a quadrupling of patient survival rates. Modern systemic treatments include combinations of anti-PD-1 antibodies with either anti-CTLA-4 antibodies or antiangiogenic tyrosine...

The pioneer women in British urology

5 January 2022 | | URO - Core Urology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). This month, I am joined by Kassie Ball, a urology trainee, who approached...

The role of embolisation in urology

3 September 2024 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Urologic Oncology
Case 1 An 86–year–old male presented with visible haematuria and suprapubic pain. He had a history of diabetes, heart failure, benign prostatic hypertrophy, aortic valve replacement, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and atrial fibrillation (AF) and was anticoagulated on a non-VKA...

Suprapubic catheterisation – a core surgical trainee’s perspective

3 November 2022 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
Suprapubic catheters (SPCs) are in widespread usage in medical practice and this review will focus on the pre-assessment, indications, methods and complications that are associated with the insertion of an SPC. Although suprapubic catheter insertions may be done electively or...

The role of PET-CT imaging in prostate cancer

4 October 2021 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in the UK, with 43,000 cases in 2017-18 [1,2]. Accurate primary staging and the detection of suspected recurrence following treatment is vital for directing management and predicting prognosis. This has conventionally...

Men with a susceptibility to prostate cancer: implications of ethnicity in PCa risk-prediction and diagnosis

5 January 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
The diagnostic and therapeutic landscapes of prostate cancer (PCa) have advanced at great pace in the past decade. However, disparities in access to care, clinical outcomes and representation in therapeutic, interventional and genomic studies continue to exist between Afro-Caribbean (AC)...

BXTAccelyon becomes global distribution partner for new online prostate MRI self-learning tool to enhance prostate cancer diagnosis

6 May 2020 | Contracts & Distributors
BXTAccelyon, the leading low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy partner to hospitals and clinics worldwide, and distribution partner for PrecisionPoint™, the...

In conversation with Professor Christopher Chapple

1 March 2017 | URO - Core Urology
Professor Christopher Chappel. Prof Chapple, thank you for taking the time to chat with the Urology News team. Can we start by asking about your background and how you ended up in the field of urology? Early in my career...

History of prostate biopsy – part 2

1 September 2018 | | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
For Part 1 of this topic is available here. The major limitations of the transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy (PBx) protocols are the risk of profound sepsis and the risk of persistently significant false negative rates, related to the...

An update on erectile dysfunction guidelines and treatment options

1 March 2019 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Technology
Erectile dysfunction is defined as the persistent inability to attain and / or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual performance. Not only does this have a psychosocial impact, it also affects the quality of life of both the patients and...

Use of MRI in the evaluation of prostate cancer: part 1

1 January 2015 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
Introduction Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in UK men, after lung cancer [1]. The incidence of prostate cancer in the UK has shown a rapid increase...

The Mitrofanoff procedure: a continent revolution

1 January 2018 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology
Prior to 1980, surgeons had been struggling to provide a catheterisable, continent channel as an alternative to the native urethra, primarily for paediatric patients with congenital neuropathic bladder. In 1980, Professor Paul Mitrofanoff described the continent supravesical antireflux appendicovesicostomy [1]...