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
162 episodes
A Dummy's Guide to Metastatic Renal Cancer!!
Have you ever found the choice of agents in metastatic kidney cancer just a bit perplexing??! Well then this is the podcast for you! To celebrate a fantastic review paper recently published in European Urology, we chat with first author Dr Regi...
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The Sir Chris Hoy Effect | Why family history matters
Legendary British cyclist Sir Chris Hoy (48) recently shocked the world by announcing that he has progressive metastatic prostate cancer. His specialists have given him a 2-4 year life expectancy. The dreadful news that no prostate cancer patie...
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PLND, ARPI Switch & De-Escalation | PROSPECT Podcast part 2
Part 2 Highlights from a GU Cast Live Event! Dr Kim Chi (Medical Oncologist, Vancouver) and Dr Carmen Mir (Urologist, Valencia) joined the PROSPECT meeting in Melbourne to discuss high-risk prostate cancer and mHSPC, along with many experts fro...
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The MSKCC PLND RCT | Please explain!!!
What are we to make of this large RCT of extended vs standard pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) for prostate cancer?? Despite it not meeting its primary endpoint of improving biochemical recurrence, the authors now report in European Urology ...
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PSMA Conundrums & Triplet vs Doublet | PROSPECT Podcast part 1
Highlights from a GU Cast Live Event! Dr Kim Chi (Medical Oncologist, Vancouver) and Dr Carmen Mir (Urologist, Valencia) joined the PROSPECT meeting in Melbourne to discuss high-risk prostate cancer and mHSPC, along with many experts from aroun...
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Treatment intensification in mHSPC | The Who, When, and How? Live webinar replay
A GU Cast Live Event!! Everything you need to know about treatment intensification in mHSPC!! Doublet vs Triplet. Who should have radiotherapy? PSMA PET/CT conundrums, e-escalation, case discussions and more. Featuring GU Cast Hosts Declan Murp...
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ESMO24# Prostate Cancer Highlights | Reaction from China
In the third 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 selected three huge prostate cancer highlights from the recent #ESMO24 meeting in Barc...
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Ten Years of ENZAMET | the gift that keeps on giving!
Today we celebrate one of our favourite clinical trials - ENZAMET! It is 10 years since ENZAMET opened and beyond its pivotal data establishing that adding enzalutamide to ADT improves survival for mHSPC patients, it continues to produce a very...
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All your GU Highlights from #ESMO24!
Ask anyone which big oncology meeting gave us the best GU oncology highlights this year and the answer is easy! ESMO24 in Barcelona! Jammed full of key papers and so many highlights, Declan and Renu bring you a great overview in this GU Cast Co...
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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 episode 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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