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Smoking and urological health
1 March 2016
| Arun K Sharma
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URO - Andrology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Urologic Oncology
European Urology Focus is a new sister journal to European Urology. It is peer-reviewed and will be published six times per year in electronic format. The first issue deals with smoking and urological diseases. It makes for very interesting reading...
Deadline for SUT Registration 21st of October!
11 October 2019
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Research & Development
Senior Urological Trainee Day
Surgeons take to the saddle for ninth annual Bike4TUF fundraiser
11 July 2022
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Research & Development
This year marks the ninth annual Bike4TUF challenge, which has raised in excess of £300,000 since 2012’s inaugural ride.
The Urology Foundation are looking for a new chair for the Science and Education Committee
26 October 2022
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Recruitment & Personnel
An opportunity has arisen for you to bring your expertise to chair the highly regarded Science and Education Committee (SEC) of The Urology Foundation.
HPV prevalence in invasive penile cancer and association with clinical outcome
1 July 2015
| Xi Cheng
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URO - Andrology
Penile cancer risks can be increased by a number of causes such as smoking, phimosis, poor hygiene, multiple sexual partners and history of gential warts or other sexually transmitted diseases. It has been found that circumcised men have a lower...
Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma
1 September 2017
| Paul Cleaveland, Vincent Tang
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents 2-3% of all cancers [1]. It is an adenocarcinoma making up 85% of all renal malignancies. Sarcomatoid transformation is a microscopically identified feature of RCC accounting for 5% of all RCCs [2]. Known as sarcomatoid...
The expanding indications for ureteroscopy – ad maiora!
1 March 2019
| Lily Whitehurst, Bhaskar K Somani
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URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Technology
The management of urolithiasis is becoming a Herculean task for healthcare providers worldwide. The incidence of stone disease is rising, with predicted lifetime risk of 12% in males and 6% in females [1]. This rise relates to both improving imaging...
Fournier’s gangrene
1 May 2015
| Tamsin Drake, Daniel P Wilby, Stephen R Keoghane
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URO - Infection
Introduction Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a rare but fulminant form of infective necrotising fasciitis affecting the perineum and external genitalia, which can rapidly progress along fascial planes. It most commonly affects men, but can occur in women and children, with...
Marin Marais: Fiddling with bladder stones
8 January 2025
| Harriet Poppy Hannaford Goddard, Jonathan Charles Goddard
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URO - Endourology & Stones
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). I’ve known about Marin Marais’ musical composition describing his bladder stone operation for...
PDE5I in LUTS – how do they work – no proof yet
1 September 2014
| Gokul Vignesh Kanda Swamy
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URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors used in erectile dysfunction (ED) have been shown to improve lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) as well. The mechanism is not well understood. One of the hypotheses for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) – LUTS is...
Biomarkers in prostate cancer detection
1 July 2018
| Karl H Pang, Saiful Miah, James WF Catto
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URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men with an estimated prevalence of 1.1 million worldwide in 2012. This heterogeneous disease resulted in approximately 307,000 deaths, making it the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death in men...
