How often do you check PSA and testosterone in your patients on androgen deprivation therapy? Probably not often enough!! Declan caught up with friend of the podcast Professor Axel Merseburger at a conference recently to chat about this under-appreciated topic. Don't get too distracted by fancy scans and genomic testing; but do make sure you know a bit about why it matters to get testosterone (and PSA) as low as possible.

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Today we dedicate our podcast to the memory of our colleague, Dr Brian Kelly (40), who passed away unexpectedly this week. We are devastated to lose Brian, who was a Consultant Urologist at Peter Mac and Eastern Health here in Melbourne, and one of our closest friends in the world.
Here we replay the Memorial Session which we conducted at Peter Mac this week. It features some great memories of Brian from contributors across the world; all of us shocked to lose one of the most special people in our urological community.
Our heartfelt condolences to Brian's mother Margaret, siblings Finnian, Sean and Ruth, and his son Tadhg.
Vale Brian we will miss you always x

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We were very happy to have world-famous kidney cancer guru Dr Rana McKay in Australia this week to do some educational events and to visit us at Peter Mac. So of course we also invited her to the GU Cast studio to pick her brains on all things kidney cancer, along with Dr Lewis Au, GU Medical Oncologist at Peter Mac. We asked them to cover three hot topics:
1. Adjuvant immunotherapy following surgery for kidney cancer
2. First line management of metastatic kidney cancer - how do we choose best options for individual patients? 
3. Future-gazing in renal cancer, including a focus on belzutifan.

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Rana's visit to Australia was supported by our friends at MSD, Silver Partners of GU Cast.

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Renu's new paper in Nature Reviews Urology! (mentioned in the intro) 

Renu and Declan escape winter in Melbourne to enjoy a few days of sunshine and science at the #ANZUP24 Annual Scientific Meeting on the Gold Coast. ANZUP is our fantastic GU Oncology co-operative trials group here in Australia and New Zealand and have an outstanding record in running clinical trials and supporting research and education in GU Oncology. Plus this is their 14th Annual Scientific Meeting with some outstanding National and International guests.
We catch up with Paul Nguyen, Elena Castro, Ravi Kanesvaran, Fiona McLean, Cristiane Bergerot and Co-Convenor Matt Roberts to bring you some great highlights of this year's meeting.
GU Cast Conference Highlights are supported by our Gold Partners, Bayer China.

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To celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympics, we bring you this special Olympics-themed episode of GU Cast - our very own Prostate Cancer Olympics! Yes we We are joined in the GU Cast studio by Dr Elena Castro, GU Medical Oncologist at Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid, who happened to be passing through Melbourne. And by our own A/Professor Arun Azad, GU Medical Oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and one of our GU Cast Clinical Advisors.
We have three events and some great medal contenders, but who will win Gold??!! Tune in for some great discussion and debate, and some surprises and controversies along the way.

This is a Themed Podcast supported by our Gold Partners, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals.

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In the second of our special episodes focussing on GU Oncology in China, we are delighted to welcome back our GU Cast China Editor. Professor Yao Zhu, who has put together this cracking episode focussing on radical prostatectomy in China. We are joined by Professor Ming Liu (Beijing Hospital, Beijing) and Professor Jiahua Pan (Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai) to discuss everything from current practices of pelvic lymph node dissection up to tantalising details of the new surgical robots which are in clinical use in China.
This is a Themed Podcast as part of our Gold Partnership with Bayer Pharmaceuticals in China. We are very grateful to Bayer China for helping us promote GU Cast in China and supporting these Themed Episodes.

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There are patient advocates and there are patient advocates, and then there is Howard Wolinsky! We chat with the inimitable Howard, medical journalist and very long-time active surveillance patient, about his varied interests in low-risk prostate cancer and prostate cancer diagnostics. He runs a great substack called The Active Surveillor with a regular newsletter which we devour every week! l His  current interests are in the abolition of transrectal prostate biopsy and the campaign to re-name grade group 1/Gleason 6 cancer as a non-cancer. We chat about all this and more, including that unforgettable appearance he made at the ASCO GU Plenary session!

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Part 2 of our Conference Highlight specials from the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference, held in April 2024 in Lugano. This is our very favourite prostate cancer meeting and we are thrilled to bring you these highlight podcasts. In this episode we chat with Elena Castro, Nick James, Anthony Joshua, Bertrand Tombal, Silke Gillessen, Aurelius Tomlin, Yüksel Ürün, Gill Morgan, and a gang of nuclear medicine phyicians including Michael Hofman, Louise Emmett, Tom Hope, Stefano Fanti, and Ken Herrmann.

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Pelvic lymph node dissection down-graded. Systematic prostate biopsies no longer recommended. More clarity around PSMA PET/CT for staging. Surgery no longer recommended for cN1 prostate cancer. Yep the recent updates to the EAU Prostate Cancer Guidelines had a lot of important changes for the global urology community to digest. So we invited EAU Prostate Cancer Guideline Vice-Chair Derya Tilki, and Guideline Board Member Gianluca Giannarini, along with Elio Mazzone to join us for a deep dive into these major changes.  All you need to know!

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The first of two Conference Highlight specials from the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference, held in April 2024 in Lugano. This is our very favourite prostate cancer meeting and we are thrilled to bring you these highlight podcasts. In this epsiode we chat with Silke Gillessen, Derya Tilki, Jochen Walz, Neha Vapiwala, Dingwei Ye, and the lucky trainees who won a GU Cast Travel Award to attend this year's APCCC. 

GU Cast Conference Highlights are supported by our friends at Bayer China, Gold Partners of GU Cast.

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