The authors of this issue’s Article of the Month are primarily based in Nara, Japan. The cover shows the Tōdai-ji Temple in Nara, houses the world’s largest bronze statue of the Buddha, and one of the many sika deer that roam through the city. ©istock.com/uperjoseph Click here for this issue’s Table […]
From Rassweiler et al, BJUI 2017
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 article itself, […]
In January 2016, in his final State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joseph Biden with heading up a new national mission, the Cancer Moonshot, to expedite advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. One of the blue-ribbon panel recommendations was to minimize the side effects of cancer treatment. There […]
Qualitative study on decision-making by prostate cancer physicians during active surveillance Abstract Objective To explore and identify factors that influence physicians’ decisions while monitoring patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance (AS). Subjects and Methods A purposive sampling strategy was used to identify physicians treating prostate cancer from diverse clinical backgrounds and geographic areas […]
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 article itself, […]
There is no doubt that, in the field of prostate cancer, few recent topics have been the subject of as much captivation and discussion as prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging. The body of literature on this imaging technique, the majority on the use of 68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC as a radiotracer, is growing unceasingly [1], and […]
Value of 111In-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-radioguided surgery for salvage lymphadenectomy in recurrent prostate cancer: correlation with histopathology and clinical follow-up Abstract Objectives To evaluate the use of 111In-labelled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-I&T-based radioguided surgery (111In-PSMA-RGS) for salvage surgery in recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) using comparison of intra-operative gamma probe measurements with histopathological results of […]