GU Cast | Urology Podcast
A urology podcast, focussing on prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, 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
215 episodes
Journal Club #4 | PRECISION and EB-StaR
Episode 4 of our monthly GU Cast Journal Club and today we focus on two important papers in prostate cancer diagnostics and bladder cancer surgery. The PRECISION NEJM paper 2018 is a landmark publication which defined the role of mpMRI in early...
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Let's Visit the ORSI Academy! World class robotic surgery training facility
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the world-famous ORSI Academy in Belgium! Declan and Renu travelled to this remarkable facility just outside Ghent in Belgium, jammed full of tens of millions of dollars worth of robotic surgery technology...
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Sexual health following prostate cancer treatment | With Chris Nelson
World-renowned sexual health expert, Dr Chris Nelson, Chief of Psychology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, joins us in studio to run through the new Movember-supported "Guidelines for Sexual Health Care for Prostate Cancer Patients". ...
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Is high-risk BCR really mHSPC?? Live webinar replay
We recently hosted another live webinar for our Gold Partners, Mundipharma, this time asking the question, "Is high-risk BCR actually metastatic prostate cancer??". It's a reasonable question! This podcast was anchored from the GU Cast st...
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SABR and LuPSMA for mHSPC? Let's talk LUNAR
Dr Amar Kishan (Radiation Oncologist, UCLA, USA), made lots of headlines recently when he presented data from the phase II randomised LUNAR trial of SABR +/- LuPSMA in patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer. So we were very happy when he...
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Let's do some UroTraining! WIth Gonzalo Vitagliano & Maxi Ringa
Fun today as we go to the OR to test drive some high-fidelity radical prostatectomy models and chat with the team behind UroTrainer - world leaders in urologic simulation. Urologists Gonzalo Vitagliano and Maxi Ringa join us from Buenos Aries t...
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In London for #ERUS25 - a festival of robotic surgery!
One of our favourite meetings of the year! The EAU Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) Annual Meeting took place in London recently and was an unashamed exposition of robotic surgery in urology. More than 30 amazing live surgeries, and some fantasti...
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Journal club #3 | ERSPC and NIAGARA
Episode 3 of our monthly GU Cast Journal Club and today we focus on one classic paper in Urology, and one from recent times - the ERSPC randomised trial of screening in prostate cancer, and the NIAGARA trial evaluating peri-operative immunother...
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Augerlicious! The ProsTIC-PCF-GU Cast Global Knowledge Exchange Webinar
Another of our deep-in-the-weeds theranostic webinars in conjunction with our friends at ProsTiC, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation. This one focussed on Terbium-161, a very exciting new option in metastatic prostate cancer. Your host...
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And in ADDITION....Lu-PSMA improves outcomes in mHSPC | With Scott Tagawa and Michael Hofman
Hot off the press in the Presidential Plenary at #ESMO25, we chat with Dr Scott Tagawa (Weill-Cornell, USA) about the positive data he just presented from the PSMAddition trial. This is an eagerly awaited phase III randmosied trial of patients ...
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Let's talk Common Sense Oncology
Never heard of Common Sense Oncology?? Well if you enjoy this podcast then we think you will might find the Common Sense Oncology (CSO) movement to be very interesting indeed! Declan Murphy caught up recently with Dr Bishal Gyawali, Med...
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In Taipei for #UAA25
The Urological Association of Asia (UAA) Annual Meeting is always a great cultural event with a focus on the local community. And Taipei certainly put on a great show! Lots of fantastic entertainment and great local cuisine, plus of course a gr...
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Three Radiation Oncologists and a Urologist walk into a podcasting studio...
They started off by introducing themselves as The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse - what could possibly go wrong!! Declan couldn't resist the opportunity to invite three very eminent radiation oncologists into the studio when they all happened...
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In Sydney for #ANZUP25
We never need an excuse to visit Sydney, and for sure when one of our favourite meetings of the year is in the Harbourside City then count us in! The Annual Meeting of ANZUP is something we try and get to every year and have really enjoyed brin...
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Journal Club #2 | TRANSLATE and Keynote-564
Episode 2 of our monthly GU Cast Journal Club and today we focus on two key papers from recent times - the TRANSLATE trial of transperineal vs transrectal biopsy, and Keynote-564 on the role of adjuvant pembrolizomab following nephrectomy. ...
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Cyberknife - who and what is it good for?
We poke around under the hood of a brand new Cyberknife facility here in Melbourne, the first on the East coast of Australia, and find out what it's all about. What is it for, who might benefit, and being surgeons we have to ask, why do they ca...
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Bye bye gadolinium! PRIME demonstrates bpMRI as good as mpMRI
Big news today with the publication in JAMA of the eagerly anticipated PRIME study, a prospective multicentre trial comparing biparametric (bp) with multiparametric (mp) MRI in men suspected of having prostate cancer. Of course, mpMRI includes ...
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Free Live Robotic Surgery Event! 25th September 2025
A quick pod to promote the totally free WRSE12 Live Robotic Surgery Event coming up later this month! A 12 hour festival of incredible robotic surgery performed by top surgeons from around the world, with a special focus on real time digital pa...
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Renaming Gleason 6 prostate cancer | The campaign continues!!!
One of our most popular podcasts ever was the one called "Gleason 6 prostate cancer | Why we should rename it (and why we can't)!", posted in December 2022, and featuring Urologists Scott Eggener (Chicago) and Matt Cooperberg), plus Pathologist...
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The Inaugural GU Cast Journal Club! With Carlos Delgado & Elena Berg
Here it is, the first of our new series called GU Cast Journal Club! A dedicated GU Cast Journal Club has been suggested by many of our listeners and viewers over the years, and we are really pleased to kick off today with the first monthly epi...
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Let's talk...penile cancer | With Asif Muneer & Nathan Lawrentschuk
Now this a topic we are ashamed to say we have barely covered in five plus years of GU Cast! A well overdue deep dive into the management of penile cancer, the rarest of all GU cancers, and fair to say the one that gets the least attention, not...
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Three hot topics in testis cancer | With Christian Kollmannsberger & Ben Tran
Refresh your knowledge of testis cancer with this punchy pod with testis cancer gurus, Prof Christian Kollmannsberger (Vancouver Cancer Centre, Vancouver), and Prof Ben Tran (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne). We pick their brains on th...
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UAA is coming to Taipei!!!
Renu was in Taipei recently and caught up with Prof Jacob Pang, Urologist and President of the Urological Association of Asia Annual meeting which takes place in Taipei from 14-17 August 2025. Find out why you should attend in this quick pod! <...
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