April 2017 #urojc summary: Is SABR a viable therapeutic option for managing renal tumors in patients deemed unsuitable for surgery?
April 2017 #urojc summary: Is SABR a viable therapeutic option for managing renal tumors in patients deemed unsuitable for surgery?
In April 2017, the International Twitter-based Urology Journal Club (@iurojc) #urojc reviewed an interesting recent article by Siva et. Al reporting their experience in a prospective cohort study utilizing Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) on inoperable primary renal cell carcinomas. The article was made freely available courtesy of BJUI for the duration…
The USPSTF Changes Course: a “C” rating for PSA screening in ages 55-69. I did not see this coming.
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It should surprise no one that I never agreed with the 2012 United States Preventive Services Task Force to give PSA a “D” rating that has led to decreases in U.S. rates of PSA testing, biopsies, and diagnosis of low- through high-risk cancer. I take care of men with prostate cancer in a multidisciplinary clinic at a dedicated cancer hospital. I perform robotic surgeries and manage over a 1,000 men on active surveillance. If you search the BJUI blogs, you can find the often viewed (>80K) “Melbourne…
EAU 2017 Congress Days 3&4
London calling! On Sunday morning London called one hour earlier than I had planned – damn daylight saving time! Last nights’ celebrations with urology friends from around the world at the ESRU (European Society of Residents in Urology) dinner party made me pay. Yet this was going to be a great meeting day.
Sunday morning sessions served as a wake-up call after a short night due to daylight saving time.
Dr. Rajesh Nair has already reported on a great kick-off and continuation of the…
EAU 2017 Congress Days 1&2
≠WeAreNotAfraid. Perhaps the standout memory of EAU – London 2017. The 32nd Annual EAU Congress in London was marked with a message of defiance from colleagues and delegates from London, Great Britain, Europe and Worldwide. These were messages of solidarity, which rang through in person and on social media after an attack at Westminster. It was quite simple. London, Europe and the World will continue regardless of these tragic events and our urological fraternity beautifully demonstrated…
TRoMbone is launched!
TRoMbone is launched! The UK feasibility randomised trial Testing radical prostatectomy in men with prostate cancer and oligoMetastases to the bone has opened at Oxford University Hospitals (PI Freddie Hamdy), University College London Hospitals (PI John Kelly) and Royal Surrey County Hospital (PI Chris Eden). Men <75 with newly-diagnosed prostate cancer and 1-3 skeletal lesions on any standard-of-care imaging (CT, bone scan, MRI, or PET) who are fit for surgery and deemed to be technically operable…
April Editorial: The BJUI’s clinical trials initiative
The BJUI supports clinical trials. Plain, simple, and with some new strategies.
Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) are the highest level of evidence-based medicine. We know this to be true, but we also know that RCTs are a challenge to fund, accrue patients, execute, and follow to endpoints. From a statistician's point of view, RCTs provide unbiased estimates of the effects of different treatments. From a clinician's point of view, RCTs provide the grandest of experiments in nature –…
April 2017’s About the Cover
The Article of the Month authors in this issue are from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK.
The cover image shows Brograve Mill, a windpump built in 1771, located in the Broads National Park, colloquially known as the Norfolk Broads, a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes covering an area of over 300 square kilometres in the East of England.
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Capitalising On Our Strengths: The 70th USANZ ASM
Canberra, our nation’s capital and the host city for the 2017 USANZ ASM, is a gem in its own right, but one which was created to satiate two feuding states locked in a bitter rivalry. In 1908, Canberra embodied the very meaning of compromise and collaboration, a technique which has garnered much success for our Country over the ensuing 100 odd years. Arguably the first official Australian collaborative effort, this way of thinking has become an almost uniquely Australian attribute and a strength…
March 2017 #urojc summary: Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection with Radical Prostatectomy – Is there enough evidence for and against?
The twitter-based international urology journal club @iurojc #urojc is back with a splash after a brief hiatus. For the March 2017 #urojc, a lively discussion takes the theme of pelvic node dissection (PLND) on radical prostatectomy (RP) reviewing a timely article by Nicola Fossati et al. The paper was made available open access courtesy of European Urology @EUplatinum.
https://twitter.com/EUplatinum/status/830937062484348928
A systematic review of the literature was performed including all…
Introducing The Urology Green List
The world of predatory scientific publishing had a major 'win' when Jeffrey Beall's blog "Scholarly Open Access" was suddenly emptied of content in January 2017. Beall was tireless in his attempts to expose the unscrupulous behaviour of predatory open access journals whose objective was nothing other than to extract author publication charges (APCs) from unwitting academics. His blog was very much the "go to" site if one wished to check the legitimacy of a particular open access journal. In a confusing…