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Treating Urothelial Bladder Cancer front cover

Treating Urothelial Bladder Cancer

1 September 2019 | | Urologic Oncology
This is a short book comprising 129 pages of text which I read in one afternoon. It provides a useful update on one of the most common malignancies encountered by urologists worldwide, which experienced urologists and trainees alike would benefit...

Surgical management of urethral diverticula in women

1 November 2016 | | Functional Urology | Female patients, Outcome, Surgery, Urethral diverticulum
This systematic review aimed to evaluate different surgical techniques and their outcomes used for treating women with urethral diverticulae. One hundred and eight studies were identified; some of these however were single case reports (37%). As one would expect the...

A new treatment algorithm for ureteral fibroepithelial polyps in children

1 November 2015 | | Paediatric Urology | Pyeloplasty, Ureteral polyps, Ureteropelvic junction obstruction, Ureteroscopy
Fibroepithelial polyps are rare in the urinary tract (found in 0.5% of all paediatric pyeloplasties and 5% of all cases of paediatric ureteral obstruction). The advent of ureteroscopy in paediatrics has increased the identification and treatment of these. This paper...

BPH therapy: how to find one’s way through the maze?

1 September 2015 | | Functional Urology
This communication is from the Young Academic Urologists (YAU) group of the European Association of Urologists (EAU). A purpose-built questionnaire of current practice was sent to 2000 members, of which 637 responded (68% were aged 50 or younger). Alpha blockers...

Polyps in continent catheterisable bladder channels

1 January 2014 | | Paediatric Urology, Reconstructive Urology
This paper retrospectively looks at all the continent catheterisable channels performed in one centre over 16 years that were all on a surveillance programme of annual endoscopic assessment beginning five years post surgery. All channels had been formed with sutures...

Risk factors for CKD following treatment for RCC

1 January 2016 | | Infection, Urologic Oncology | chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, glomerular filtration rate, hypertension, nephrectomy
This paper concerns the prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) following treatment for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Over the last 10 years, partial nephrectomy has played an increasing role in the management of RCC, especially T1a disease. It has been...

Management of stage 1 non-seminomatous germ cell tumours

1 November 2014 | | Urologic Oncology
Testicular cancer (TC) is the most successfully treated solid tumour, achieving a cure rate of 90-95% [1-3]. Testicular cancer is relatively rare with an incidence of 2207 cases in the UK in 2014 [4] and yet is the most common...

Delivering a trainee-led Urolink educational programme – my experience in Tanzania

1 March 2024 | | Andrology, Basic Science Research, Endourology and Stones, Functional Urology, Infection, Neurourology, Paediatric Urology, Reconstructive Urology, Technological Developments, Urologic Oncology, Uroradiology, Trauma and Emergency Urology
In May 2023, I travelled to Moshi, Tanzania, where I visited Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) – a trip which was made possible through the collaborative efforts of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Urolink and with the support...

Józef Dietl – more than one crisis

5 September 2022 | | Technological Developments
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). To urologists, the name Dietl is linked with the eponym of Dietl’s crisis,...

In conversation with Mr Duncan Summerton

1 November 2018
Urology News was delighted to recently have a chat with Duncan Summerton, Consultant Urological Surgeon in Leicester and new President of BAUS. Duncan with a native wild brown trout caught on a dry fly on the Derbyshire Wye. Can you...

Read all about it Jan/Feb 2015

1 January 2015 | Andrology, Basic Science Research, Endourology and Stones, Functional Urology, Infection, Neurourology, Paediatric Urology, Reconstructive Urology, Technological Developments, Trauma and Emergency Urology, Urologic Oncology, Uroradiology
It can be awkward when a patient asks you about a report in their favourite tabloid detailing an amazing research breakthrough or a ‘cutting-edge’ new treatment / test and you don’t know what they are talking about! So this section...

Focal therapy trials

6 November 2020 | | Urologic Oncology
Men with localised prostate cancer have traditionally required whole gland treatment involving radical prostatectomy or radical radiation treatment, independent of disease location and size. Increasing evidence supports the use of active treatment only in those men diagnosed with prostate cancer...