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 from Tom Powles, Betsy Plimack, and Vinay Prasad (yikes!). 
Declan and Renu were also delighted to have Associate Professor Andrew Weickhardt join them in studio today. Andrew is a GU Medical Oncologist at the Olivia-Newton John Cancer Centre and Austin Hospital in Melbourne, where he leads the GU Oncology trials team. 

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-hosted by Professor Declan Murphy and Dr Howard Soule. More than 500 registrants from over 40 countries joined in, many of whom contributed to a very lively discussion. Enjoy!

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 Eapen are joined by Associate Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk from Peter Mac. Nathan is also Director of Urology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and leads Bladder Cancer Australia. 

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 features Monty and Eric Jonasch when they popped in to see us at Peter Mac in February 2018. Nice pose gents!

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 plenary and joins us today to discuss this and others. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Dr Ben Tran, GU Trials Lead at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

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 colleagues, Associate Professor Arun Azad and Professor Michael Hofman. 

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 Nurse Consultant, Emma Birch. 

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 lot about the disease. And then you get it. Suddenly you're "A Cancer Patient", and one of your colleagues is wielding the (robotic) scalpel in your surgery. 

Tables are turned, but once a scientist always a scientist, even on the operating table. 

A story about science, knowledge, and vulnerability. Don't miss this frank and fearless conversation about an experience many men don’t talk openly about.

Guests:

Professor Robert Ramsay
Cancer scientist
Co-Head Gastrointestinal Cancer Program
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia 

Professor Declan Murphy
Urologist and Director of Genitourinary Oncology
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and University of Melbourne
Declan on Twitter @declangmurphy

Presenter/producer: Natasha Mitchell
Sound engineer: Krissy Miltiadou

Duration: 28min 49secBroadcast: Sun 2 Feb 2020, 5:05pm

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 the Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden, and his son's recent Zoom wedding in South America! Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined in studio by Associate Professor Arun Azad, medical oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. 

Today we are joined by Nurse Consultants, Emma Birch and Marc Diocera, and also by patient advocate Alan White, to discuss how they work together to prepare patients and their loved ones who are coming up to robotic prostatectomy. They describe the evolution of their "Robocare" program over teh past ten years, and look ahead to how COVID19 is creating opportunities to make it even more accessible. Hosted by Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen.