It has been a season of conferences - EAU, APCCC, ASCO, ERUS, ESMO, UROONCO…and somewhere in there, the August 2024 edition of the EUO journal dropped! We highlight two key papers from this issue,  featuring the first and senior authors. And of course, the popular EUO bio segment, this time starring EUO supporting editor, Dr Riccardo Campi dialing in from Florence, Italy!

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Priority papers:
1.Prognostic Significance of HER2 Expression in Patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-exposed Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer

Featured authors – Dr Xingliang Tan & Dr Deng (Guangzhou, China)

2.Outcomes of Cytoreductive Radical Prostatectomy for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer on Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography: Results of a Multicenter European Study

Featured authors – Dr Pawel Rajwa (London, UK) & Dr Giorgio Gandaglia (Milan, Italy)

Full index to European Urology Oncology August 2024 issue 

More great highlights from the latest edition of European Urology!, plus a fascinating interview with senior statistical editor, Professor Rod Dunn. Here on the European Urology Podcast we bring you selected highlights from the journal each month with some great guests. As ever we highlight two key papers (details below) from this month's journal, including interviews with key authors and expert commentators. We also look at other highlights in this month's journal with guest contributor Dr Alice Thomson (Melbourne). 

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Podcast Priority Papers

1 . Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography–detected Disease Extent and Overall Survival of Patients with High-risk Nonmetastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer: An International Multicenter Retrospective Study 

Featured author - Dr Boris Hadaschik (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Discussant - Dr Karolien Goffin (UZ Leuven, Belgium)

2. Thulium Fiber Laser Versus Holmium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet for Lithotripsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

Featured author - Dr Esteban Emiliani (Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain)

Full index to European Urology June 2024 

More great highlights from the latest edition of European Urology!! Here on the European Urology Podcast we bring you selected highlights each month with some great guests. As ever we highlight two key papers (details below) from this month's journal, including interviews with key authors and expert commentators. We also look at other highlights in this month's journal with guest contributor Dr Carlos Delgado (Mexico).

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Podcast Priority Papers
1.Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy with Totally Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion Versus Open Radical Cystectomy: 3-Year Outcomes from a Randomised Controlled Trial

Featured author - Dr Giuseppe Simone (Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Roma, Italy)
Discussant - Dr Laura Bukavina (Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA)

2. Clinical Characterization of Patients Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and Undergoing Conservative Management: A PIONEER Analysis Based on Big Data

Featured author - Dr James N'Dow (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK)

Full index to European Urology May 2024 

Christian Gratzke catches up with Guest Editor Kari Tikkinen, who with co-Guest Editor Gordon Guyatt put together the second in our series of Evidence-Based Medicine articles. Recorded on site at the EAU Annual Meeting in Paris.

Find the full issue here 

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This episode is a bit different! To celebrate the EAU Annual Meeting in Paris, we took the podcast on the road and recorded on site in Paris! Please do excuse the background noise from the trade area!
 Tune in to hear chats with senior Editorial Board members of the European Urology Family of Journals including Dr Morgan Roupret, Dr Christian Gratzke, Dr Jochen Walz, Dr Nina Harke, Dr Jochen Walz, Dr Ruben de Groote, Dr Renu Eapen, and Dr Joyce Baard. Surgery in Motion is our Podcast Priority Paper this month and you can hear Nina and Ruben discuss an Atlas of Orthotopic Neobladder with Dr Federico Piramide. Plus Dr Eoin Dinneen rounds up other highlights this month.

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Only a few sleeps to EAU 2024!. And to entertain you as you travel to Paris, here is the 2nd episode of the European Urology Oncology (EUO) podcast. Host, Dr Renu Eapen (Melbourne) dives into 2 key papers from the Feb edition of the journal, featuring interviews with the lead authors. Includes a very special EUO bio segment with EU managing editor (for almost 20 years!), Cathy Pierce. Enjoy!

Priority papers:

1.     First-in-human Evaluation of a Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen-targeted Near-infrared Fluorescent Small Molecule for Fluorescence-based Identification of Prostate Cancer in Patients with High-risk Prostate Cancer Undergoing Robotic-assisted Prostatectomy.

https://euoncology.europeanurology.com/article/S2588-9311(23)00146-3/fulltext 

Featured authors – Professor Peter Carroll and Associate Professor Hao Nguyen (UCSF)
 

2.     Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection in Clinical Stage IIA/B Metastatic Seminoma: Results of the COlogne Trial of Retroperitoneal Lymphadenectomy in Metastatic Seminoma (COTRIMS).

https://euoncology.europeanurology.com/article/S2588-9311(23)00117-7/abstract

Featured authors – Professor Axel Heidenreich (Cologne, Germany)
 

Full index to European Urology Oncology February 2024 issue https://euoncology.europeanurology.com/issue/S2588-9311(24)X0002-4

Christian Gratzke sits down with Ranjith Ramasamy and Daniel Schlager to discuss the special issue of European Urology Focus they Guest Edited on Men's Health. Find the full issue here https://www.eu-focus.europeanurology.com/issue/S2405-4569(22)X0008-4

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More great highlights from the latest edition of European Urology!! Here on the European Urology Podcast we bring you selected highlights each month with some great guests. As ever we highlight two key papers (details below) from this month's journal, including interviews with key authors and expert commentators. We also look at other highlights in this month's journal with guest contributor Dr Eduardo Felicia (Lisbon). 

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Podcast Priority Papers
1. Population-based Organised Prostate Cancer Testing: Results from the First Invitation of 50-year-old Men

Featured author - Dr Ola Bratt (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Discussant - Dr Gianluca Giannarini (University Hospital, Udine, Italy)

2. Management of Lymph Node–positive Penile Cancer: A Systematic Review

Featured author - Dr Ashwin Sachdeva (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester)
Discussant - Dr Sarah Psutka (Fred Hutch Cancer Centre, Seattle)

Full index to European Urology March 2024 

A great mixture on the European Urology Podcast this month with AI and  bladder cancer featuring in our highlight papers (details below). Co-hosts Declan Murphy and Joyce Baard bring you interviews with key authors and expert commentators, and we also look at other highlights with guest contributor Dr Fabian Stangl (Bern, Switzerland). Plus, Laura stays on for a chat about her role as one of our new Associate Editors at European Urology, a bit about her career, and an update on her personal links to the war in Ukraine.
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Podcast Priority Papers
1. Awareness and Use of ChatGPT and Large Language Models: A Prospective Cross-sectional Global Survey in Urology
Featured author - Dr Giovanni Cacciamani (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Discussant - Dr Anobel Odisho (University of California, San Francisco)

2. Updated Overall Survival by Circulating Tumor DNA Status from the Phase 3 IMvigor010 Trial: Adjuvant Atezolizumab Versus Observation in Muscle-invasive Urothelial Carcinoma

Featured author - Dr Tom Powles (Barts Cancer Institute, London)
Discussant - Dr Laura Bukavina (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)

Full index to European Urology February 2024

Plus have a look at the Uromigos (co-Host is our guest Tom Powles) for another great urology podcast option 

Christian Gratzke sits down with Matt Cooperberg to discuss the special Issue MattGuest Edited which looked at Biomarkers in Urologic Oncology. Full issue here

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