Sanjeev Madaan

Consultant Urological Surgeon & Lead Cancer Clinician

Department of Urology & Nephrology, Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford; Visiting Professor, Canterbury Christ Church University; Chairman Urology TSSG, Kent & Medway Cancer Alliance; Expert Advisor to NICE, UK.

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Medical statistics for urologists: part 2 – probability and hypothesis testing

2 March 2022 |

Following on from Part 1 of this series (Part 3 available here), this article aims to build on other analytical techniques commonly used within medical research, focusing on simple examples. Probability and testing Before exploring hypothesis testing, it is vital...

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Medical statistics for urologists: part 1

3 September 2021 |

Part 2 of this article is available here, and Part 3 here Clinicians often consider statistics to be a dry and challenging subject. However, an understanding of the basics of statistic methods underpins the interpretation and use of current best...

History of prostate biopsy – part 2

1 September 2018 | | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology

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...