GU Cast | Urology Podcast
A urology podcast, focussing on all things prostate, kidney, bladder, testis and penile cancer. Join Professor Declan Murphy and Dr Renu Eapen from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne for this regular dive into the world of genitourinary (GU) Oncology and Urology. Regular guests from all over the world, from every walk of life. Find out more gucast.org
Episodes
153 episodes
GU Cast vs The Penis Project! With Melissa Hadley-Barrett
Penis Project is one of our favourite podcasts (and certainly popular with our patients), so we were delighted to welcome Host and Sexologist, Melissa Hadley-Barrett to join us for a chat. What is the Penis Project? Who is it for? (anyone with ...
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Spectacular live robotic surgery at #ERUS24 in Bordeaux
The world's longest running live robotic surgery meeting took place in Bordeaux last week and Declan and Renu were there to bring you all the highlights! The 21st Meeting of the EAU Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) was their biggest ever with mor...
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LuPSMA moves UpFront | first RCT data with Arun Azad and Michael Hofman
A big day at ESMO in Barcelona today as our friend and colleague A/Professor Arun Azad presents the results of the UpFront PSMA trial for the first time. The data were revealed in the main prostate cancer session at ESMO and simultaneously publ...
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Salvage Robotic Radical Prostatectomy | 500 cases later with Paul Cathcart
More than 500 salvage radical prostatectomies!!! Yep it would be fair enough to describe Dr Paul Cathcart as being "experienced" in the most challenging scenario we face as prostate cancer surgeons. Surgery for cancer recurrence in the pr...
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Three Big Waves in Testis Cancer | With Rob Hamilton and Ben Tran
Testis cancer! We don't talk enough about this on GU Cast. But we are making up for it today with a cracking overview of three hot topics in testis cancer a couple of world-leading testis cancer experts. We are joined by Rob Hamilton (Uro...
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Why you should go to Bali!! | #UAA24
As if any of us need an excuse to go to beautiful Bali! Well the Urological Association of Asia (UAA) Annual Meeting takes place there from 5-8th September 2024. Renu caught up with Dr Agus Rizal Hamid recently to hear what the UAA have in stor...
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PSA and Testosterone | Why low numbers matter
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-a...
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Remembering Dr Brian Kelly
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 on...
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Three big things in advanced/high risk kidney cancer | With Rana McKay and Lewis Au
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 ...
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Sunshine and Science from #ANZUP24 on the Gold Coast
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 a...
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The Prostate Cancer Olympics 2024! With Elena Castro and Arun Azad
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 O...
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Radical prostatectomy and the wave of new robots in China today
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 epsiode focussing on radical prostatectomy in China. We ar...
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We meet the Active Surveillor | Howard Wolinsky
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 prosta...
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#APCCC24 Conference Highlights | Part 2
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 t...
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2024 EAU Prostate Cancer Guidelines - some big changes!!
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 ...
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#APCCC24 Conference Highlights | Part 1
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. I...
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GU Highlights at #ASCO24 | with Marty Schoen
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 ...
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Pembro improves survival after nephrectomy | Huge news for Urologists
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 nephre...
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En-bloc party! RCT of TURBT with Jeremy Teoh
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 ...
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Three big challenges in metastatic prostate cancer | Dr Alicia Morgans
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 ...
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Metastatic prostate cancer in China today
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,&nbs...
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Uro-Podcasters Love-in in Lugano!!
Great fun on the shores of Lake Lugano where the hosts of three of the best-known podcasts in GU Oncology get together for a chat! Declan and Renu from GU Cast, join with Brian and Tom from Uromigos, and Gill from Oncoalert. How did it all ...
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ProsTIC24 PSMA Theranostics Conference Highlights
The 2nd ProsTIC Preceptorship is one of the most intense fora for the discussion of PSMA theranostics anywhere in the world! A biennial meeting in Melbourne with many of the world's leading experts in the field. Not just superb practical advice...
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Proton therapy no better than standard prostate radiotherapy
A new paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology is reporting that the bowel and urinary side-effects of proton therapy (a high tech and very expensive type of radiotherapy), are no better than side-effects after standard high-quality radiothera...
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ADT and cardiac risks (and how I sold my company for $1.4bn)
Professor Neil Fleshner (University of Toronto) drops into the GU Cast studio in Melbourne for an intriguing discussion! First we cover off the underrated topic of cardiac risks in patients starting androgen deprivation therapy and how we can r...
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