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Anti-VEGF and PD-1 combinations in renal cell carcinoma

2 July 2025 | Asif H Ansari | URO - Urologic Oncology

Over the past decade, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been central to treating renal cell carcinoma (RCC), with oncologists refining dosing strategies to balance treatment efficacy with quality of life (QoL). Recently, the introduction of...

Virtual reality: a novel approach to pain management during ESWL

4 March 2025 | Ivo Dukic | URO - Technology, URO - Endourology & Stones

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is a well-established treatment for kidney and ureteric stone disease, employing high-energy shock waves to fragment stones into smaller pieces for passage through the urinary tract. This article explores the application of virtual reality (VR)...

Conservative management of pelviureteric junction

13 March 2023 | Asif H Ansari, Dev Gulur | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Paediatrics

Background Pelviureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) is defined as a functionally significant impairment of urine flow from the renal pelvis into the proximal ureter. For more than a century, surgery was considered the first-choice approach to management. However, the widespread use...

Urologic complications of radiotherapy

1 July 2014 | Steve McCombie, Dickon Hayne, Nick Rukin | URO - Urologic Oncology

Case 1 1. What machine is seen in the picture? 2. What is the standard dose schedule for radiotherapy for prostate cancer? 3. What are the complications of radiotherapy? Case 2 1. How does haemorrhagic cystitis develop? 2. What are...

What is a leadership fellowship?

4 March 2024 | Radha Sehgal | URO - Core Urology

What is a leadership fellowship?” This is a question that is often asked about my year out of training to undertake the National Medical Director’s (NMD) Clinical Fellow Scheme. I hope to provide an insight into what a fellowship in...

Using cryopreserved prepubertal testis tissues – are we getting warmer?

12 September 2023 | Michael P Rimmer, Kathleen Duffin, Rod T Mitchell | 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....

Seminal vesicle calculi

1 January 2016 | Michelle Christodoulidou, Miles Walkden, Asif Muneer, Raj Nigam | URO - Uroradiology

Epidemiology Seminal vesicle calculi are uncommon with just over 100 cases being reported in the literature, although the true incidence is likely to be higher [1-9]. Patients usually present aged between 30 and 45 years old and although the pathogenesis...

Understanding Stauffer’s syndrome

1 May 2018 | Peter Mark Smith, Matthew Liew, Arie Parnham | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatrics, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology

Who was Stauffer and what is Stauffer’s syndrome? Maurice Stauffer (1915-1994) was a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, United States, and in 1961 first characterised the non-metastatic, paraneoplastic effects of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) on liver size and...

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