Langley et al.1 report on the oncological and functional outcomes of men treated with low dose rate (LDR) prostate brachytherapy in men 60 years old or younger. 597 patients with a median (range) age of 57 (44-60) years had a median follow-up of 8.9 (1.5-17.2) years. The 10- year post-implant relapse free survival using the […]
London features on the cover again this issue as we bring you another NICE Guidance article as Article of the Month, Routine preoperative tests for elective surgery. The photo shows people ice skating on the temporary ice rink outside London’s Natural History Museum. Image ©istock.com/gianliguori Click here for this […]
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post. In addition to the […]
The management of prostate cancer poses difficult challenges, which is largely because we lack the necessary tools to predict its presence, and discern between indolent disease with a small chance of clinical manifestation and aggressive tumours that are more likely to be lethal. Despite the fact that novel blood and urine tests are available, which […]
Prostate Health Index density improves detection of clinically significant prostate cancer Abstract Objectives To explore the utility of Prostate Health Index (PHI) density for the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer (PCa) in a contemporary cohort of men presenting for diagnostic evaluation of PCa. Patients and Methods The study cohort included patients with elevated prostate-specific […]
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post. In addition to the […]
Management and outcomes of patients with renal medullary carcinoma: a multicentre collaborative study Amishi Y. Shah*, Jose A. Karam*, Gabriel G. Malouf†, Priya Rao*, Zita D. Lim*, Eric Jonasch*, Lianchun Xiao*, Jianjun Gao*, Ulka N. Vaishampayan‡, Daniel Y. Heng§, Elizabeth R. Plimack¶, Elizabeth A. Guancial**, Chunkit Fung**, Stefanie R. Lowas ††, Pheroze Tamboli*, Kanishka Sircar*, Surena F. Matin*, W. […]
From Williams et al, BJUI 2016
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post. In addition to the […]