GU Cast | Urology Podcast

A bumper episode bringing you some amazing highlights from the world's top live robotic urology meeting! We are once again at the EAU Robotic Urology Section Annual meeting, this year in Padua, Italy, featuring more than 50 live robotic urology surgeries, a large number of which are international telesurgeries - surgeons in Padua and patients in faraway countries. Get a close look at how this happens! 
Great interviews with so many experts including ERUS Chair Alberto Breda, Congress President Fabrizio del Moro, Ben Challacombe Silvia Secco, Alberto Briganti, Nine Harke, Simonne Crivellaro, Jim Porter, Karen Fransis, Veronique Phe and many more. 
Your usual hosts are Renu Eapen and Declan Murphy. 
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This episode supported by our Silver Partners, Device Technologies. 

Plus check out our bonus ERUS podcast where we take a walk through the trade area to look at all the robot technology on display. Just search for the previous episode of GU Cast

Check out Join Ben Challacombe (Guy’s Hospital, London), and Sam Davies (Mater Hospital, Brisbane), as they take Declan Murphy for a tour of the incredible robotic surgery technology at the EAU Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) meeting in Padua. The largest ever collection of robotic surgery devices at the world’s best urology live surgery meeting. 
A bonus preview episode ahead of our main #ERUS26 highlights podcast coming soon!
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Pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) - one of our perennial favourite and contentious topics on GU Cast. Today we have both Alberto Briganti (Milano, ITA), and Tobias Maurer (Hamburg, GER), in the studio. Two hugely experienced prostate cancer surgeons, both with huge expertise in PLND. Alberto's name synonomous with PLND due to the eponymous nomograms he has deveoped over the years. And Tobias with his pioneering experience in PSMA radio-guided PLND. 
Your usual hosts are Renu Eapen and Declan Murphy

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Two great topics on the GU Cast Journal Club today. How should we image patients with haematuria (the DETECT trial, J Urol 2018), and what is the role of adjuvant vs salvage radiotherpay following radical prostatectomy (three great trials - RAVES, RADICALS and GETUG-AFU 17), see links below).
Plus we welcome new GU Cast co-Editor Gaetan Devos, who recently joined us on Fellowship at Peter Mac, replacing Carlos Delgado.
Usual GU Cast Hosts are Renu Eapen and Declan Murphy, and GU Cast Journal Club Editor, Elena Berg.

Links:
1. Can Renal and Bladder Ultrasound Replace Computerized Tomography Urogram in Patients Investigated for Microscopic Hematuria?

2. Adjuvant radiotherapy versus early salvage radiotherapy following radical prostatectomy (TROG 08.03/ANZUP RAVES): a randomised, controlled, phase 3, non-inferiority trial

3. Timing of radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy (RADICALS-RT): a randomised, controlled phase 3 trial

4. Adjuvant radiotherapy versus early salvage radiotherapy plus short-term androgen deprivation therapy in men with localised prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy (GETUG-AFU 17): a randomised, phase 3 trial

The perennially thorny topic of prostate cancer screening has been very well addressed in the brand new Australian guidelines for the Early Detection of Prostate Cancer which we are delighted to highlight today.  Pragmatic, progressive and patient-focused,  are some of the comments we have read - great to hear! We have been very gratified to see the very positive reception which these guidelines have received, not just here in Australia, but also by other expert and patient groups around the world.

Today, GU Cast co-Host Declan Murphy (also a member of the Guideline Expert Advisory Group), chat with co-Chair of the Guideline committee, Prof Peter Heathcote (Urologist, ex-president of USANZ), and Dr. Jane Crowe (GP, co-Chair of the PSA Working Group along with Declan). What are the key messages for men in different age groups? Which men are considered higher risk? What are the major changes from the old guideline? All this and more in this episode of GU Cast.

See below for links to all the key documents, and huge congratulations to Guideline co-Chair Jeff Dunn and all at the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia for enabling this, and everyone involved in the process. Too many to mention!

Links:
https://www.pcfa.org.au/awareness/new-guidelines-for-the-early-detection-of-prostate-cancer/