GU Cast Professor Declan Murphy & Dr Renu Eapen

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...

Didn't get to ASCO this year?? Us neither!! But not to worry, we checked in with Dr Marty Schoen who did, and brings us all the key highlights! Marty is a GU Medical Oncologist at the St Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Centre and the University of St Louis, Missouri. He runs through a smattering of stuff that caught his eye at ASCO this year. Thanks Marty! Also on our YouTube channel

For Urologists, there are not that many papers that come along where we can say - "this will almost immediately change my practice". But KEYNOTE-564 looks like one of those! A large phase III randomised trial of adjuvant pembro following nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in patients deemed at higher risk for recurrence. Regular listeners/viewers might remember we discussed this on GU Cast back in August 2021 when the disease-free survival endpoint was published in NEJM, and it would be fai...

Should we remove bladder cancers piece-meal by chopping them into little pieces, or should we try and remove en bloc with a margin around the base?? This very nice randomised controlled trial from our friends in Hong Kong demonstrates that the recurrence rate is significantly lower if we use the all-too-rarely used en bloc technique. Dr Jeremy Teoh from the Chinese University Hong Kong joins us to discuss his paper just published in European Urology. Check out the YouTube version for a video ...

Today we have Dr Alicia Morgans, GU Medical Oncologist and Director of Survivorship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, in the GU Cast studio for a chat. We wanted to ask Alicia to look forward and identify three big challenges we will face in metastatic prostate cancer over the next 5-10 years. What did we come up with??!! Tune in to find out!!Even better on our YouTube channel

In the first of our special episodes focussing on GU Oncology in China, we are delighted to welcome our inaugural GU Cast China Editor. Professor Yao Zhu, to the GU Cast studio. Yao is a Urologist at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre, and is well known to all of us at GU Cast and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. As part of our Gold Partnership with Bayer Pharmaceuticals in China, Yao will help us put together some Themed Podcasts focussing on GU Oncology in China. This first episode...