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Bladder cancer – an overshadowed ‘volcano’

1 May 2015 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Bladder cancer has often been overshadowed by the limelight of prostate cancer. However, of all the urological cancers, bladder cancer is the only one which has shown a slight decline in age-standardised five-year survival rates over the last couple of...

Black men are more at risk from prostate cancer, but we won’t let it stay that way – an update from Prostate Cancer Research

4 May 2023 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
- CHARITY FOCUS - Focusing on all of disease characteristics, societal factors, and better communication gives us real potential to fix a disparity that has persisted for too long. When it comes to health inequity, the numbers are stark. Black...

Consent Part 2

5 September 2022 | | URO - Core Urology
See Part 1 on this topic here Case 1 A 77 year old lady presents to the Emergency Department confused and generally unwell. She is septic and, on imaging, is found to have a 9mm obstructing right sided proximal ureteric...

Purple urine bag syndrome

1 July 2021 | | URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency
Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is an uncommon phenomenon where the tubing and urinary catheter bag is noticed to undergo purple discolouration. This has been linked with urinary tract infections (UTI), chronic debilitated states and prolonged catheterisation. PUBS was noticed...

RSM Paediatric Urology Meeting and Presidential Address 2023

4 March 2024 | | URO - Paediatric Urology
The academic year of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) started with a bang in October last year with the Paediatric Urology meeting, co-organised by Shabnam Undre (Paediatric Representative for BAUS and Consultant Paediatric Urologist East...

Managing sustainability

2 April 2024 |
Planetary health needs to be addressed at a societal level for any meaningful impact to occur. As the global director of sustainability for a law firm, Marion Palmer provides an overview of the responsibilities of corporate organisations for both a...

Establishing the Southwest Catheter Skills Course – a closed loop quality improvement project

18 July 2024 | | URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
The General Medical Council states that foundation year doctors should be able to carry out male and female urethral catheterisation safely under direct supervision [1]. A 2014 survey of medical students demonstrated that 40% and 64% had never performed male...

International urology returns to Scotland

31 March 2025 | URO - Core Urology
Founded in 1907, the SIU has established itself as the premier international professional society for urologists. As global interdependence increases, so does the relevance of the Society’s mission to enable urologists in all nations to apply the highest standards of...

Rishi Sunak joins Prostate Cancer Research as an ambassador

26 February 2025 | Charities, Research & Development
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...

An overview of changes to urology training

1 January 2017 | | URO - Core Urology
Paediatric urology training A review of paediatric emergency services in the UK involving general surgery, urology and paediatric surgery was initiated due to the problems encountered by the lack of suitable experience outside large paediatric surgical units to deliver emergency...

An overview of daytime wetting in children

1 January 2017 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Paediatric Urology
It is estimated that daytime wetting affects one in seventy-five children over the age of five years [1]. Daytime wetting is commoner in younger children (1 in 7 aged 4.5 years, 1 in 20 aged 9.5 years) [1]. Many younger...

Sperm selection techniques in assisted reproductive technologies: state of the ART?

4 May 2023 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Technology
Infertility is the inability to achieve pregnancy following one year of regular, unprotected intercourse (in the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle). Infertility is a common problem that affects between 7 and 15% of couples worldwide, with male factor infertility...