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A tale of two cities – hypospadias outcomes

2 February 2022 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
As urologists, it is important to know our results. In terms of hypospadias surgery, which is commonly undertaken after the age of one year in the UK, long-term follow-up is required to fully acquire this knowledge. Long-term urinary outcomes and...
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AML – a rare variant

12 September 2023 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
With the increasing number of CT and ultrasound scans performed in hospital practice more and more incidental angiomyolipomas (AML) are being picked up, some of which are asymptomatic and may not bother patients at all. This study comes from the...
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Phase two trial of SAbR for primary RCC

2 November 2023 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
A study focused on stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SAbR) as a treatment for primary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has yielded significant findings. The primary objective of the study was successfully met, demonstrating a 94% local control rate at one year among...
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Intravesical instillation of chemotherapy before radical surgery for upper UTUC

2 July 2025 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is a rare but increasingly prevalent form of urothelial cancer, accounting for 5–10% of cases, with an annual incidence of two to three cases per 100,000 individuals in Western Europe. Radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) with...

BAUP (British Association of Urological Pathologists) Symposium on Urological Pathology with the EQA (CRS046)

22 November 2024
@09:00 - 17:00

BAUP (British Association of Urological Pathologists) Advanced Prostate Pathology Course

30 September 2024 -1 October 2024
The guest faculty will be the internationally renowned uropathologists, Professor Glen Kristiansen (Germany) and Professor Arno van Leenders (the Netherlands). The UK faculty includes Dr Selina Bhattarai, Dr Aiman Haider and Dr Murali Varma This 2-day course aimed at consultant pathologists and senior trainees will include lectures, small group multiheader microscopy sessions, self-study glass-slide microscopy sessions (>200 cases) and a Quiz session.

Prostate cancer: Black men more likely to be diagnosed at later stages

9 January 2025 | Charities, Research & Development
Latest data shows Black men have higher rates of stage 3 or stage 4 prostate cancer diagnoses compared with white men. Black men diagnosed at a later stage in their 60s are 14% less likely to get NICE approved treatment...

Preparing for the FRCS (Urol) viva

1 September 2017 | | URO - Core Urology
Ping! You look down to your phone and you have just received an email saying, “Congratulations, you have now successfully completed The Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations section 1 of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Urol) exam.”...

So you want to go on a fellowship – part II: the research year

1 November 2016 | | URO - Core Urology
This article is the second in a three-part series which follows directly on from the first part which concentrated on the rationale for going on a fellowship, as well as some of the administrative hurdles you might face in planning...

Using cryopreserved prepubertal testis tissues – are we getting warmer?

12 September 2023 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology
The rising incidence of childhood cancer coupled with increasing survivorship means there is a growing population of childhood cancer survivors with unmet health needs. In the UK around 1 in 500 children and young people are survivors of childhood cancer....

A guide to local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy

2 November 2023 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
In the UK, nearly 100,000 men undergo a prostate biopsy annually, a figure projected to double in the next decade [1]. In recent years, we have observed a paradigm shift in urological practice in numerous UK hospitals. The conventional transrectal,...

MOOCs

1 July 2015 | | URO - Technology
Technology has always been intimately linked to new educational methods. This has included distance learning, learning through multimedia and finally computer-based learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are so called because they can be taken by an unlimited number of...