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
225 episodes
PRIMARY 2 is positive! PSMA PET/CT moves to early detection
Big day at the EAU Annual Meeting n London today, as our colleague Dr James Buteau (Nuclear Medicine Physician, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne), reads out the PRIMARY 2 RCT at the Practice-Changing Plenary in London. Plus a simultaneo...
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Histolog digital microscopy | All you need to know!
We bring you highlights from a fantastic two day meeting at the ORSI Academy in Belgium, focussing on the hot topic of intra-operative margin assessment (IOMA), especially during prostate cancer surgery. Following on from the publication of the...
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Win a trip to the APCCC in Lugano!!!
Yes that's right, our great APCCC giveaway is back! We are sending three lucky winners to Lugano to attend the world's best prostate cancer meeting - the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference. Just send us a 60 second video to enter.
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Journal Club #6 | POUT and SEMS
Welcome to Episode 6 of our monthly GU Cast Journal Club! Two important papers in upper tract urothelial cancer (the POUT trial of adjuvant chemo post nephro-ureterectomy), and metastatic testicular cancer (the SEMS trial of surgery for early m...
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ARPIs, SPARC and Organised Prostate Testing | With Anders Bjartell
It is the eve of the USANZ ASM here in Melbourne (which Renu is Convening!), and some of the 27 International guests are already into town. So we grabbed Anders Bjartell (Lund University/University Hospital Malmo, SWE), for a sit down chat in s...
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Periop EV-Pembro | Do we even need cystectomy anymore?? EV-303 with Christof Vulsteke
Giant bladder cancer paper in NEJM this week with the highly anticipated results of the perioperative EV-Pembro trial (EV-303 / KN-905). Already we can say this is a landmark publicaion in bladder cancer that will change practice and even chall...
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Neha and Amar on what really matters
Following on from last week's episode on "toxicity", we are delighted today to welcome back two great friends of GU Cast from the world of radiation oncology - ASTRO President Dr Neha Vapiwala (University of Pennsylvania), and European Urology ...
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GU Toxicity, AI Toxicity & Twitter toxicity!!!
In case you missed it, or you've already abandoned Twitter (memo to self - must do that ourselves!), we witnessed some pretty toxic stuff over there in the past couple of weeks. Vile personal attacks, calls for resignations, accusations of nefa...
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Journal Club #5 | Lamm BCG maintenance and CHAARTED
Happy New Year and welcome to Episode 5 of our monthly GU Cast Journal Club! Today we focus on two classic papers in non-invasive bladder cancer and metastatic prostate cancer. The Lamm RCT of maintenance BCG is a landmark trial for all sorts o...
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Focus on China | ESMO prostate cancer highlights
Another of our special Themed Podcasts focussed on prostate cancer in China, supported by our Gold Partner, Bayer. We are joined as ever by our China Editor, Dr Yao Zhu (Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre), and also special guest Dr Yige B...
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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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