One of our most popular episodes in 2022 was "Patting the Hormone Therapy Shark" with author, surfer and prostate cancer survivor, Tim Baker. And a lot has happened in the 12 months since so we invited Tim back for a follow-up chat in this Themed Podcast supported by our GU Cast Gold Partners, Mundipharma.
Tim's inspiring approach to managing the side-effects of androgen deprivation therapy are well worth knowing for anyone involved in advanced prostate cancer including clinicians (especially clinicians!), nurses and allied health care professionals, industry, and of course patients and their loved ones. Tim runs through his "MEDS" strategy in this podcast, and also chats about other options including creative writing, the topic of his ongoing PhD.
Thanks to our friends at Mundipharma for their ongoing support for GU Cast through their Gold Partnership.

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Links:
Tim's website
Previous GU Cast episode 

We hijacked our good friends Professor Boris Hadaschik (Urologist, Essen, Germany), and Associate Professor Tyler Seibert (Radiation Oncologist, University of California, San Diego), who happened to be in Melbourne this week, and diverted them into the GU Cast studio for a chat about high-risk prostate cancer. Boris and Tyler were on a speaker tour supported Janssen Pharmaceuticals, so we put together this Themed Podcast supported by Janssen (Gold Partners of GU Cast), to probe three key questions in high-risk prostate cancer in 2023:
1. What is the role of PSMA PET/CT in initial staging?
2. If the PSMA PET/CT is N0, can we avoid pelvic lymph node dissection?
3. What is the optimal radiotherpay strategy for high-risk prostate cancer in 2023?
Superb multidisciplinary chat with two great experts. Thanks to Janssen for their support for this Themed Episode of GU Cast.

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Twitter links:
Boris Hadaschik
Tyler Seibert 

The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Annual Meeting is the World's leading nuclear medicine extravaganza! Today we cross live to Professor Michael Hofman and friends to hear some of the GU highlights at this year's annual meeting in Vienna.  Michael is joined by Prof Ken Herrmann, Dr Kerry Jewell, Dr Francesco Ceci, Dr Phiilip Kuo, Dr Bastiaan Privé and Dr Wolfgang Fendler. A fantastic update from EANM in Vienna!

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The mass media were quick to pick up on two papers in JAMA Surgery last week with headlines such as "Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons", and "Should you pick the sex of your surgeon?". So what's it all about??
We chat with lead author of one of these papers. Dr Chris Wallis, Urologist at the University of Toronto, whose looked at outcomes for more than 1.2 million (!!) patients undergoing a range of surgery types, and showed that patients operated on by female surgeons had less complications and better survival. Another study from Sweden showed similar benefits in patients undergoing gallbladder surgery.
Chris tells us more. Plus Aoife McVey brings us some great social media highlights this week. 

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Article Links:
Chris Wallis et al paper
Swedish study on gallbladder surgery
Guardian Newspaper article

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Fun at the EUREP Meeting courtesy of Uros Milenkovoic
Kim Kardashian in an MRI scanner
Rhea Liang weighs in on ortho comments
David Canes explains bladder diverticulum 3

David Canes Youtube channel 

Is this the solution to screening for prostate cancer?? Don't bother with a PSA test and instead screen using a 10 minute MRI scan??! Re-IMAGINE is a very interesting prospective study published in BMJ Oncology this week which did exactly that with some really interesting findings.
We are joined by study authors Professor Caroline Moore and Professor Shonit Punwani to discuss.

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Links:
BMJ Oncology paper
Coverage in Urology Times 

What is a rectal spacer and do they help reduce side-effects from prostate radiation??! That's today's topic on GU Cast. Renu caught up with rectal spacer enthusiasts Professor Peter Orio (Dana Farber Cancer Institute) and Associate Professor Shankar Siva (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) in downtown Melbourne this week to learn all about this topic.
Thanks to our friends at Icon Cancer Centre who supported Peter's educational tour to Australia this week.
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Links:
Randomised trial of Barrigel rectal spacer in JAMA Oncology 2023 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2801296

Here's a quick plug for another podcast that GU Cast is very happy to support!
Launching in September 2023, the European Urology Podcast is a new monthly podcast to accompany the world's highest ranked urology journal, European Urology. Co-hosted by Professor Declan Murphy in Melbourne and Dr Joyce Baard in Amsterdam, the European Urology Podcast will highlight key papers and feature interviews with authors, editors and special guests. It will be produced by the team behind GU Cast.
Learn more in this short trailer and subscribe on your favourite podcast platform to get the latest content. Just search European Urology Podcast.
Also available as a full video podcast on the European Urology YouTube channel 

Major scientific journals only change their Editor-in-Chief every 8-10 years so it's quite a big deal when it happens! Today we chat with Professor Alberto Briganti, incoming Editor-in-Chief of European Urology,  the world's highest ranked urology journal, and with Professor Morgan Roupret, incoming Editor-in-Chief of European Urology Oncology.
Why has everybody's impact factor dropped this year? What are their grand plans for their respective journals? How can we get our research noticed? Hear all the answers with Declan and Renu in this episode of GU Cast.
Plus Aoife McVey returns to tell us what caught her eye on social media this week.

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Declan and Renu as you haven't seen them before! They leave their cosy  podcast studio to do battle at the Australia & New Zealand Urogenital & Prostate Trials Group (ANZUP) Annual Scientific Meeting! The battleground is renal cancer, with Renu arguing in favour of adjuvant immunotherapy, and Declan arguing against. No holds barred. Who wins??! Tune in to find out.
Plus we chat with some of the ANZUP ASM international faculty including Alex Wyatt, Lauren Buffart, Ananya Choudhury, Andrea Apolo and Darren Feldman.
Congratulations to ASM Convenors Ben Tran and Renu Eapen, their Scientific Meeting and all at ANZUP  for putting on a terrific meeting. Thanks to ANZUP for allowing us to use footage from the debate, and to debate sponsors MSD who are also GU Cast Silver Partners. 

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This, our 100th episode, is a very special GU Cast, in which we remember the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake, which hit just as the Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand (USANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) was kicking off in the city. 185 people lost their lives with many thousands injured, and with huge devastation across the region. Declan returned to Christchurch recently to put together this special episode, which includes some of his original footage from the time of the earthquake.
The highlight of this episode is a full replay of this year's Harry Harris Oration, delivered in February 2023 at the USANZ ASM in Melbourne. Dr Samuel "Harry" Harris, was one of the founding fathers of USANZ, and this annual oration in his name at the opening ceremony of our ASM is the most prestigious in the USANZ calendar. We invited the four inaugural recipients of the Christchurch Medal,
Urologists Dr Stephen Mark (Christchurch), Dr Lydia Johns-Putra (Ballarat), Dr Stuart Phillip (Brisbane), and Dr Julian Shah (London), to deliver the Harry Harris Oration by remembering Christchurch.  These four individuals were recognised for acts of extraordinary bravery in the rubble of Christchurch, risking their own lives to help victims in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. In this Harry Harris Oration, the Christchurch Medallists transport us back to the events of that fateful day, and reflect on what it means today. For those of us who were there, this was a very emotional and sombre occasion; for those who were not, this will be a chance to understand why the Christchurch Earthquake is such an important event in the history of our community.
We are very proud of this special GU Cast. We do hope that it means something to our audience around the world.

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