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Prostate cancer now England’s most common cancer
28 January 2025
Prostate cancer cases overtook those of breast cancer by thousands in both 2022 and 2023, according to Prostate Cancer UK analysis of NHS data. Huge increase shows that more men than ever before are learning about their risk and taking...
Chronic retention – all you need to know
Chronic retention – all you need to know Chronic urinary retention is a common presentation in elderly and frail patients. Two types should be recognised - low pressure chronic retention (LPCR) and high pressure chronic retention (HPCR). Acute-on-chronic retention occurs...ICS updates on continence care: making sense of detrusor underactivity and the underactive bladder
1 July 2016
| Nadir I Osman
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Countless epidemiological studies have established the frequent occurrence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and the significant burden these symptoms incur. For the most part of the past three decades, there has been an overwhelming focus on detrusor overactivity (DO)...
Bladder cancer outcomes in patients with spina bifida
These authors carried out a systematic review using PubMed and a number of terms to pick up studies with an underlying diagnosis of myelomeningocele and bladder cancer, with exclusions of cord injury, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, or prior ureterosigmoidostomy. Their aim was...
Mindfulness-based stress reduction as a novel treatment for IC/PBS
1 July 2017
| Ann Crump
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Interstitial cystitis / painful bladder syndrome (IC / PBS) is not fully understood and is associated with significant morbidity. The objective of this study was to provide initial data to evaluate mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a treatment for IC...
Tolerability and persistence in women prescribed mirabegron
1 November 2016
| Ann Crump
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Mirabegron is a beta-3 agonist used in the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB). Trials have shown reduced side-effects but equal efficacy when compared to anticholinergics. The authors wished to examine patients’ persistence with treatment, in a non-trial setting, over a...
LUTS among Caucasian-European men who have sex with men: findings from a real-life survey
1 March 2016
| Pravisha Ravindra
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URO - Endourology & Stones
This study is the first of its kind to report an association between men who have sex with men (MSM) and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Nine hundred and forty-nine consecutive individuals who presented to a uro-andrology clinic for complaints...
Urinary biomarkers for surveillance of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
1 May 2019
| Ibrahim Jubber, Karl H Pang, James WF Catto
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URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology
Bladder cancer (BC) is the ninth most common cancer worldwide with a yearly incidence of approximately 430,000 cases. There is a male predominance and it is the seventh most common cancer in men worldwide [1]. Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC)...
No Margin for Error: A Surgeon’s Struggle Repairing Hypospadias
1 November 2024
| Hazem Mosa
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URO - Paediatric Urology
No Margin for Error is not only a memoir of the ‘pound for pound’ most influential hypospadiologist of the 21st century, but also a blueprint to self-examination and improvement. It’s an essential read for any urologist starting their career to...
Moving hospitals as a consultant urological surgeon: what are the challenges?
2 March 2022
| Matthew Perry, Roland Morley, Stephen R Keoghane
Despite over 100 unfilled consultant urological surgeon posts in the UK, the reasons why an established surgeon should wish to move hospitals can still be viewed with suspicion. Why is this the case, when in many other careers, both within...
Post-prostatectomy incontinence
4 May 2020
| Alison Downey, Ian Beckley
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Urologic Oncology
Urinary incontinence following prostate surgery (post-prostatectomy incontinence or PPI) is a significant complication that can have a profoundly negative impact on the quality of life of patients suffering with it. It may become a barrier to physical activity and social...
Practical surgical management of chronic testicular pain
1 January 2019
| Mohammad Hassan Khan, Naeemuddin Ahmed Shaikh
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URO - Andrology, URO - Infection, URO - Trauma & Emergency
Chronic testicular pain (CTP) is defined as constant or intermittent, unilateral or bilateral testicular pain of more than three months’ duration, which significantly interferes with the daily activities of the patient prompting medical advice [1-4]. This condition is commonly seen...
