Articles of the week

Preoperative JJ stent placement in ureteric and renal stone treatment: results from the Clinical Research Office of Endourological Society (CROES) ureteroscopy (URS) Global Study Dean Assimos, Alfonso Crisci*, Daniel Culkin†, Wei Xue‡, Anita Roelofs§, Mordechai Duvdevani¶, Mahesh Desai** and Jean de la Rosette†† on behalf of the CROES URS Global Study Group   Department of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA, *Department of…

Every Month the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Month 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. The second post under the Article of the Week heading on the homepage will consist of additional material or media. This week we feature a video from Andrew McCullough, discussing his paper. If you only have time…

Oral enclomiphene citrate raises testosterone and preserves sperm counts in obese hypogonadal men, unlike topical testosterone: restoration instead of replacement Edward D. Kim, Andrew McCullough* and Jed Kaminetsky†   University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN *Urological Institute of Northeastern, New York, NY, USA, and †University Urology Associates, New York, NY, USA   Objectives To determine the effects of daily oral doses of…

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 an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…

Family history (FH) has long been known to increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer (PCa); there is an approximately twofold increased risk with an affected father and a threefold increased risk with an affected brother [1]. Furthermore, FH may increase the risk of more aggressive disease for family members, although results of studies in the PSA screening era have been inconsistent [2, 3]. Using FH as a risk factor, the present analysis of the Swiss arm of the European Randomized…

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 an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…

In this month's issue of the BJUI, Hughes-Hallette et al. [1] report on the impact of a mass media public health campaign for gross haematuria. The authors performed a retrospective analysis evaluating the effectiveness of the ‘Be Clear on Cancer: “Blood in the pee”’ campaign. Similar campaigns for colorectal cancer have shown increased referrals and cost, without increasing the number of cancer diagnoses [2, 3]. In the current study [1], cancer diagnosis similarly did not rise. The…

Assessing the impact of mass media public health campaigns. ‘Be Clear on Cancer: Blood in Pee’ a case in point Archie Hughes-Hallett*, Daisy Browne†, Elsie Mensah*, Justin Vale*† and Erik Mayer*†‡   *Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, †Department of Urology, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, and ‡Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK   Objectives To assess the impact on suspected…

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 an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…