"Prostate Specific" Membrane Antigen PET/CT - now also available to stage kidney cancer! We seriously need a name change here. Already we know that PSMA PET/CT shows a lot more than the prostate/prostate cancer, but could it have utility in staging renal cancer?? We've certainly had a lot of off-trial experience of this at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre since 2014, and we know see data  in Eur Urol Open Science to describe this experience.
We are joined by senior author Associate Professor Shankar Siva, radiation oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Dr Rana McKay, GU medical oncologist at the University of California, San Diego, who has an interest in FOLH1 expression in renal cancer, and Peter Mac nuclear medicine physician Professor Michael Hofman, to discuss PSMA and renal cancer.

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Links:
Prof Siva's paper in Eur Urol Open Science

A great episode focussing on two aspects of bladder cancer. Bladder preservation for muscle-invasive cancer is in the limelight again following the recent update of the landmark BC2001 trial. We chat with bladder cancer gurus Dr Neha Vapiwala, Radiation Oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr Ashish Kamat, Urologist at MD Anderson Cancer Centre, and Dr Nathan Lawrentschuk, Urologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Everything you need to know!
Plus a chat about the fascinating Bladder Path study presented by Dr Nick James at ESMO22, challenging the role of TURBT in managing bladder cancer. Spicy!
And of course, Dr Aoife McVey pops up with her Twitti-Leaks section (yes she has given it a name)!

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It's pretty shocking how many prostate cancers went missing during COVID, especially in Melbourne which experienced the most prolonged lockdown in the world. The data is still being cleaned but it is estimated that up to 3000 men who would have been expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer over the past 2.5 years, have not yet been diagnosed.
It is prostate cancer awareness month in Australia, so a good time to chat with some experts to better understand the issue of the missing cancers. Plus we hear of some worrying examples.
Declan and Renu are joined by Alan White, well known patient advocate, Anne Savage, Chief Executive Director of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, and Professor Grant McArthur, Chair of the Victorian COVID Cancer Network, whose group have been looking at this data in real-time since the start of COVID. Grant is also a prostate cancer survivor himself.

Also posted on  Youtube

Links:
PCFA
The Prostate Zone
Peter Mac story on missing diagnoses
VCCC Alliance 

It wasn't that long ago that we would have scoffed at the idea of using radiation therapy to treat primary kidney cancer. Not any more!! We are joined by two top experts in kidney cancer, and leaders of ongoing research in this field, to discuss the expanding role for radiation therapy in managing primary renal cancer.
Dr Rana McKay, GU Medical Oncologist at the University of California, San Diego, and Associate Professor Shankar Siva, Radiation Oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, take us through the relatively recent history of radiation for renal cancer and highlight some ongoing trials in this area. A fantastic overview for anyone interested in renal cancer.
Plus our intrepid social media watcher, Dr Aoife McVey, pops in to tell us what has caught her eye on Twitter this week.

You can watch us broadcasting from our studio here on Youtube.

Links:
Twitter - Dr Rana McKay
Twitter - A/Prof Shankar Siva
Twitter - Dr Aoife McVey
Twitter - CheatUrology
Twitter - GoumasUrologia

https://urologycheatsheets.org/ 

International speaker tours are back! And this week we had two fantastic GU oncology experts visiting Australia to do a lecture tour on hot topics in metastatic prostate cancer.  So of course we invited them to attend our multidisciplinary team meeting at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, then pop upstairs to teh Gu Cast studio.
Dr Tian Zhang from UT Southwestern in Dallas, and Dr Rahul Aggarwal from UCSF, are both prolific medical oncologists with a huge amount of expertise in prostate cancer. We asked them to highlight three key areas in each of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, to avoid us having to wade through teh endless stream of data in these fast-moving areas.
What areas did they chose to highlight?? Well have a listen!

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It's been two and half years since we posted our first GU Cast and it's been fun! We are so grateful to all our listeners and viewers for supporting us, sending us great comments, and getting involved in the conversation. GU Oncology is such a fast-moving world, and we have really enjoyed posting content to keep ourselves and our audiences up to date.
We also have some exciting plans to develop the podcast and we thought we should share these with you. Tune in to this short episode to hear more! 

Better enjoyed on YouTube

Declan and Renu

Links:
New GU Cast website 

GU Cast is pleased to cross-post another of these excellent ProsTIC PSMA theranostics webinars in collaboration with the Priotate Cancer Foundation's Global Knowledge Exchange programs. This webinar focuses on the new era of PSMA theranostics post-FDA approval.
This webinar is co-hosted by Professor Michael Hofman, Nuclear Medicine Physician and Director of ProsTIC at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, and GU Cast's own Professor Declan Murphy, with comments from the PCFs Dr Howard Soule and Dr Andrea Miyahira.  Special guest presenters include Professor Silke Gillessen, Professor Ken Herrmann, and Dr Louise Kostos and Dr James Buteau.

For all the slides and visual bits, enjoy on Youtube here 

Part 2 of our #EAU22 highlights from Amsterdam features chats with EAU Guidelines Chair Professor Maria Ribal, the inimitable Associate Professor David Bouchier-Hayes, and a roving report from Dr Sophie Rintoul-Hoad as she sails around Amsterdam's canals. Plus some live reporting from the GU Cast reception at the Hoopman Pub in Amsterdam with Dr Alastair Lamb, Dr Marcus Cumberbatch, Dr Ben Challacombe, and a trio of colorectal surgeons who just love urology. Check out everyone wearing their GU Cast merch!
And we also cross-post Dr Matt Cooperberg's UroToday interview with Declan and Renu on the LuTectomy study. Jam packed.

Best appreciated on Youtube here 

Declan and Renu bring you the first of their two part #EAU22 conference highlights from Amsterdam. How great to have the EAU back in person! We catch up with lots of old friends and bring you top scientific highlights. Guests on this episode include Jim Catto, Peter Black, Tim O'Brien, Eva Comperat, plus some fun on EAU TV with Chris Sweeney and Alberto Briganti.

Also on YouTube here 

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USANZ ASM is back! Yey! The Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand ASM was one of the first victims of the pandemic in 2020, and has finally returned, albeit delayed from its usual Feb/March slot. We caught up with a bunch of local and international delegates on the Gold Coast to talk about their scientific and social highlights. Enjoy!

Also cross posted on Youtube, well worth a watch!

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