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Rishi Sunak joins Prostate Cancer Research as an ambassador
Rishi Sunak with three prostate cancer patients at the Oxford BioDynamics labs. (From left to right: Dafydd Charles, Briane Milne, Rishi Sunak, Alfred Samuels). Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joined Prostate Cancer Research as an ambassador, to champion...National survey highlights women’s lived experience of UTI and the importance of getting diagnosis right
Survey highlights the burden of recurrent UTI, inconsistent urine sample collection and concerns about diagnosis, antibiotic treatment and being heard. London, 20 August 2026 – Analysis of a national survey exploring women’s experiences of acute urinary tract infection (UTI) diagnosis...Why bother? Metabolic screening for stone formers
Introduction Despite the considerable increase in the incidence of stone disease in the UK and elsewhere in recent years, urologists have engaged with preventative strategies to only a limited degree. With mounting evidence of the strong correlation between obesity and...
Developing and validating a new nomogram for diagnosing BOO in women
Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) in women is thought to be present in between 2.7% and 27%. Causes of BOO in women may be anatomical or functional. Yet, unlike the diagnosis in men, there is no standard definition for BOO in...
Multiparametric MRI with targeted-only biopsy – a new standard?
In this issue of European Urology, Kasivisvanathan et al. present a meta-analysis of two randomised trials comparing prebiopsy MRI with targeted biopsy (TBx) alone versus standard transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy (TRUS-Bx) in biopsy-naïve men at risk of prostate cancer. Their findings...Bladder cancer diagnosis and follow up: A new proven urinary biomarker to support the post COVID-19 recovery phase
Since lockdown began most urologists have been following the advice of BAUS Oncology, to minimise the risk of exposure of patients and staff to potential COVID-19 infection: the result is an increasing backlog of patients requiring tests to determine if...A laboratory in your pocket
In this series of articles, I show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk) and in this one I am joined by Mary Garthwaite, retired urologist and Chair of The...Missed Meyer-Weigert duplex ureter during emergency ureteric stenting for ureteric stones
The Meyer-Weigert rule is a fundamental anatomical principle in urology that describes the typical orientation of ureteral orifices in duplex kidneys. In a duplex system, the upper pole ureter usually inserts inferomedially, while the lower pole ureter inserts superolaterally. This...MRI screening for prostate cancer: a step towards a ‘prostagram’
The UK National Screening Committee has been calling for further research into alternative screening tests for prostate cancer. The committee decided against prostate cancer screening using prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing on the basis that “PSA is still a poor...History of prostate biopsy – part 2
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...
