The International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP) has completed a consensus process to modify and clarify the Gleason scoring system for prostate cancers (1). Five grade groups have been defined with tumors of ISUP Grade Group 1 being the least aggressive and having the lowest likelihood of progression, whereas those of ISUP Grade Group 5 […]
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 […]
Positive Surgical Margins in Radical Prostatectomy Patients Do Not Predict Long-term Oncological Outcomes: Results from SEARCH Prabhakar Mithal, Lauren E. Howard†‡, William J. Aronson§¶, Martha K. Terris**††, Matthew R. Cooperberg‡‡, Christopher J. Kane§§, Christopher Amling¶¶ and Stephen J. Freedland‡*** Department of Urology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, †Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, ‡Division […]
The rate of PSA-based screening over the last 35 years can be compared with driving your car from the Netherlands to Italy. It starts with a rather flat drive, perhaps a few hills in the Southern part of the Netherlands, which represents the rate of PSA screening in the late 1980s. Moving with high speed through Germany, one gradually climbs […]
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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 […]
Differential effects of isomers of clomiphene citrate on reproductive tissues in male mice Gregory K. Fontenot, Ronald D. Wiehle and Joseph S. Podolski Repros Therapeutics Inc., The Woodlands, TX, USA Objectives To determine, in a chronic dosing study, the oral toxicity potential of the test substances, enclomiphene citrate (ENC) and zuclomiphene citrate (ZUC), […]
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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 […]
Comparison of the efficacy and safety of tolterodine 2 mg and 4 mg combined with an α-blocker in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and overactive bladder: a randomized controlled trial Tae Heon Kim*, Wonho Jung†, Yoon Seok Suh*, Soonhyun Yook‡, Hyun Hwan Sung* and Kyu-Sung Lee*‡ *Department of Urology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan […]