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Prostate Cancer UK Clinical Champions Programme
Prostate Cancer UK have opened applications for their award-winning Clinical Champions Programme.Precision ART: Insights into ICSI and Embryo Biopsy
Course description The microscopic treatment of individual eggs, sperm, or embryos to improve fertilization and pregnancy rates is an essential skill for an embryologist and is critical in achieving the best clinical outcomes. With a focus on ICSI and biopsy...
Outcomes of preserving the foreskin during distal hypospadias
Hypospadias surgery continues to tax the minds of paediatric urologists. Increasingly distal hypospadias surgery is becoming more and more conservative (in some cases, carrying out only foreskin reconstruction and leaving a mild hypospadias) and the role of foreskin reconstruction as...Medical Protection: Expertise, advocacy, and support when it matters most
The world’s leading medical defence organisation providing long-term protection against the potentially ruinous costs of litigation, as well as the other professional challenges that healthcare professionals might face during the course of their career. As a doctor your work is...
Urinary Stones – Medical and Surgical Management
This book is nicely adapted to cover both the medical and surgical management of urinary stone disease. Those chapters dealing with the surgical management of stone disease are dealt with unsurprisingly well – delivered with a relaxed and conversational prose...
The potential of statin use in castrate resistant prostate cancer treatment
One of the mechanisms by which prostate cancer achieves castrate resistance is through de novo intratumoral production of androgens. Reactivation of androgen receptors results in promotion of cell survival and proliferation pathways despite castrate serum testosterone levels. As androgen synthesis...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...Urology National Selection: tips and tricks for a successful interview process
We invited Dominic Brown, the top-ranking candidate from the Urology National Training Selection Interview 2023, to share his wisdom on the interview process. Dominic is currently an ST3 working in North West London. Kelly Ong, Urology News Trainees Sub-Editor. 1....Suprapubic catheterisation – a core surgical trainee’s perspective
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...
Prenatal spina bifida repair – does it have urological benefits in the longer term?
At present, I have one patient under my care who underwent prenatal closure of his spina bifida defect. Only with time, will we be able to determine whether this intervention has been of benefit for him from a urological standpoint....
