GU Cast | Urology Podcast

Today we join forces again with our good friends at the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) to bring you the podcast version of the PCF Global Knowledge Exchange, this time focussing on Next Generation PSMA. Today's event is brought to you by PCF in conjunction with the Prostate Imaging and Theranostics Centre of Excellence (ProsTIC) at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Your hosts are...

A big week for prostate cancer in the Lancet! No less than three much-anticipated randomised trials to investigate the role of adjuvant vs salvage radiotherapy in prostate cancer, were published in the Lancet and Lancet Oncology this week, plus a pre-planned meta-analysis of all three. RAVES, RADICALS-RT, and GETUG-AFU 17, each examined the issue of post-operative radiotherapy in men at risk of bi...

Today we focus on trainee-led collaborative research, focussing on three of the best examples out there. We chat with the leaders of the British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST), the European Society of Residents in Urology (ESRU), and the Australian Young Urology Researchers Organisation (YURO). These groups have a number of missions, including networking and mentorship for traine...

Continuing our season of chats with newly-minted Editors-in-Chief of top urology journals, today we chat with Dr Mike Leveridge of the Department of Urology, Queen's University, Ontario. Mike has just taken the reins as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Association of Urology (CUA) Journal, one of our favourite national journals, and has just published his opening editorial. CUA J is open acces...

Uro-Twitterati legend Dr Ben Davies joins us today to trawl through his Twitter feed and share his wisdom on everything from tomatoes to leadership positions in Urology. Ben is Professor of Urology at the University of Pittsburgh, Chief of Urology at Shadyside/Hillman Cancer Centre and Director of the Uro-Oncology Fellowship Program. No holds barred chat with one of our favourite friends in Urolog...

Professor Freddie Hamdy, Professor of Urology at the University of Oxford, has recently taken up the reigns as Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) and has just published the first edition with his new editorial team. The BJUI has been around for more than 90 years and is one of the top journals in the world of urology. Its impact factor rose to an all-time high u...

Tim O'Brien, Consultant Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, joins GU Cast to chat about his recent appointment as President of The British Association of Urological Surgeons. Tim has taken the reigns of BAUS during these most extraordinary of times, and is determined to make the most of the opportunities! Nothing like a pandemic to help make some chan...

Today we are joined by USANZ President, Dr Stephen Mark, to discuss the big challenges faced by trainees during COVID. We include soundbites from many trainees and aspiring trainees who sent in voice memos to highlight the stresses and concerns they have - some  amazing comments! Stephen responds to these concerns and gives us a glimpse into USANZ plans for the future.  Regular hosts Declan Murphy...

Today GU Cast again joins up with our good friends at Urotoday.com to cross post this episode. Our own Dr Renu Eapen is interviewed by Dr Ashish Kamat (an old friend of GU Cast), as part of the Urotoday Bladder Cancer Centre of Excellence, to discuss urinary diversion in female patients following radical cystectomy.  You can find the original Urotoday post, including some supporting slides, on the...

With the COVID pandemic situation continuing to worsen in Melbourne, further restrictions have been put in place for elective surgery. Pre-op COVID swabs are already mandatory, and now only the most urgent surgeries can go ahead. We are joined by the Directors of three of Melbourne's busiest urology cancer centres to see what this means for patients. Professor Damien Bolton from the Austin, A...

Today we chat with Dr Paul Cathcart, Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, who has a specialist interest in salvage radical prostatectomy. Paul is one of the world's most experienced salvage prostatectomists and joins us to chat about patient selection and surgical technique to optimise outcomes, especially for patients who have undergone focal therapy....

Today Melbourne is back in lockdown (boo), so to cheer ourselves up, we bring you a fantastic GU Cast with two great guests! Dr Jim Porter from Seattle has hit the headlines twice recently; first with a superb randomised trial of a point of surgical technique during robotic prostatectomy recently published in the BJUI; and second, the global headlines that he made when he mentored Dr Archie Fernan...

Today we look forward to #EAU20, the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Urology (EAU). Like all other scientific meetings at present, #EAU20 is not taking place in its usual format as a huge physical meeting (due to be in Amsterdam), but is instead a fully virtual meeting taking place from 17-19th July 2020.  Today we chat with the Chair of the EAU Scientific Congress Office, Professor...

Dr Archie Fernando is a Consultant Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, specialising in testicular cancer and retroperitoneal fibrosis. BAUS posted a terrific video which she did recently to share her perspectives on telehealth, based on an interesting case she had recently had, and she shares seven great tips on telehealth for clinicians. Join Declan and R...

GU Cast today features two excellent online initiatives to facilitate online education.  We are joined in studio by Associate Professor Jeremy Grummet, Urologist, to talk about https://www.mripro.io which provides an outstanding platform to learn how to interpret MRI prostate. A very well annotated set of 300 cases are presented in a very user-friendly platform with CME approval. Also a great set...

We are joined today by the fantastic Dr Neeraj Agarwal of the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah to discuss some contentious areas in mCRPC, especially around DNA repair defects, immunotherapy and other targeted therapies. Also joined again in studio by our colleague Associate Professor Arun Azad, and regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen.

GU Cast chats to Dr Petros Grivas, GU Medical Oncologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, about the JAVELIN 100 trial which featured in the plenary session at ASCO20 recently. Petros is senior author on this practice-changing study of "switch maintenance" in metastatic bladder cancer, and he joins us today to explain some of the finer details of the study. With audio cameos fr...

Another most enjoyable webinar from our friends at the Prostate Cancer Foundation, this time focussing on the TheraP trial recently presented at #ASCO20, a randomised trial of Lu-PSMA vs cabazitaxel in progressive mCRPC. Professor Michael Hofman presents the data and is joined by an esteemed global panel including Professor Ian Davis, Professor Cora Sternberg and Professor Wolfgang Weber. Co-hoste...

Dr Ashish Kamat, Professor of Urologic Onology at MD Anderson Cancer Centre joins us for a chat about the BADAS trial which he is leading. Fascinating trial to see if BCG vaccination might protect health care workers. And of course we talk bladder cancer as Ashish is a huge key opinion leader with many leadership roles in bladder cancer research and advocacy.  usual hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Ea...

Dr Sumanta Pal from City of Hope, CA, joins us to discuss renal cancer highlights at virtual #ASCO20. Monty heads the renal cancer program at City of Hope and is a huge KOL in renal cancer. Also great fun on Twitter @montypal of course.  Enjoy this fireside chat with Monty, Dr Ben Tran, medical oncologist at Peter Mac, and regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen.  PS our podcast art today featu...

Dr Elizabeth Plimack, Chief of GU Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Centre, Philadelphia, joins us to discuss bladder cancer highlights at ASCO 20. For the first time, urothelial cancer featured in an ASCO Plenary with Dr Tom Powles presenting the primary endpoint of JAVELIN100, a practice-changing study of switch-maintenance in metastatic urothelial cancer. Betsy did a fantastic discussion in...

The first in our series of post-#ASCO20 podcasts. Today we chat with Dr Oliver Sartor of Tulane Cancer Centre about his favourite prostate cancer moments from virtual #ASCO20. PSMA imaging and therapy, neo-adjuvant intensive ADT, M0 CRPC etc etc - all get a mention in a whirlwind run through the main prostate cancer sessions.  Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Peter Mac coll...

We are joined today by Alan and Fiona White to discuss their perspectives as a couple who have been on this journey, and who spend a lot of time supporting other couples. Alan had an open radical prostatectomy in 2011, and himself and Fiona have developed https://www.theprostatezone.com to help others on the journey.  Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are also joined by prostate cancer Nu...

We are re-posting this podcast which ABC Radio National posted in Feb 2020, featuring our own Declan Murphy and Peter Mac colleague, Professor Rob Ramsay, top scientist and prostate cancer patient. Some wonderful perspectives and very nicely put together by Natasha Mitchell from the Science Friction podcast at the ABC. Here is their blurb -  You're a top cancer scientist. You think you know a...

Today we are joined by Professor Nick James, Principal Investigator of the STAMPEDE study; an amazing ongoing series of practice-changing randomised trials for men with advanced prostate cancer. Nick discusses recent highlights of STAMPEDE, imminent developments in STAMPEDE, the impact of PSMA PET/CT, as well as some challenges in the COVID era. He also discusses his recent move from Birmingham to...