Latest Gu oncology Podcast Episodes
#APCCC24 Conference Highlights | Part 2
GU Cast - July 09, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourPart 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 this episode we chat with Elena Castro, Nick James, A...
2024 EAU Prostate Cancer Guidelines - some big changes!!
GU Cast - June 20, 2024 03:00 - 47 minutesPelvic 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 Guidelines had a lot of important changes for the gl...
#APCCC24 Conference Highlights | Part 1
GU Cast - June 16, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutesThe 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 T...
GU Highlights at #ASCO24 | with Marty Schoen
GU Cast - June 09, 2024 23:00 - 35 minutesDidn'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 ...
Pembro improves survival after nephrectomy | Huge news for Urologists
GU Cast - June 03, 2024 22:00 - 45 minutesFor 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...
En-bloc party! RCT of TURBT with Jeremy Teoh
GU Cast - May 29, 2024 20:00 - 29 minutesShould 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...
Three big challenges in metastatic prostate cancer | Dr Alicia Morgans
GU Cast - May 19, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutesToday 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. W...
Metastatic prostate cancer in China today
GU Cast - May 09, 2024 02:00 - 40 minutesIn 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 Ma...
Uro-Podcasters Love-in in Lugano!!
GU Cast - April 27, 2024 10:00 - 16 minutesGreat 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 start? Why did it all start?! Best moments, worst momen...
ProsTIC24 PSMA Theranostics Conference Highlights
GU Cast - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutesThe 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 about how to get your prostate cancer theranostics ...
Proton therapy no better than standard prostate radiotherapy
GU Cast - April 04, 2024 19:00 - 29 minutesA 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 radiotherapy (called IMRT). Quite a fuss on twitter when this ...
ADT and cardiac risks (and how I sold my company for $1.4bn)
GU Cast - April 02, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutesProfessor 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 reduce these for the benefit of our patients. Then we...
Happy days for metastatic bladder cancer | Enrique Grande and Andrew Weickhardt
GU Cast - March 26, 2024 19:00 - 32 minutesA big medical oncology love-in in the GU Cast studio today!! Professor Enrique Grande was visiting from MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Madrid to chat all about some of the sensational advances we have seen in metastatic bladder cancer in recent times. And we were also joined by old friend Professo...
High risk prostate cancer and mHSPC | With Axel Merseburger
GU Cast - March 18, 2024 23:00 - 26 minutesAxel Merseburger (Chief and Professor of Urology, Lubeck, Germany) was in Australia recently and popped into the GU Cast studio for a chat. Axel was at the USANZ ASM recently and also on a speaker tour supported by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, so we put together this Themed Podcast to pick his brain...
#USANZ24 Conference Highlights
GU Cast - March 04, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutesDeclan and Renu bring you lots of highlights and interviews from the Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand (USANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) which took place last week in Adelaide. Almost 1000 delegates descended on this beautiful part of the world, famous for its beaches and winer...
What does a randomised trial tell us about prostate biopsy?
GU Cast - February 27, 2024 21:00 - 32 minutesNeedle through the rectum or needle through the skin?? Transrectal vs transperienal prostate biopsy is certainly a hot topic in prostate cancer, with the vast majority of men having their biopsy through the rectum rather than through the skin. It is quick, cheap and easy (for the urologist and t...
"Unethical trials", or so says Vinay!
GU Cast - February 22, 2024 19:00 - 49 minutesTwo of the highest profile presentations at the recent ASCO GU Meeting were the plenary presentations of the CONTACT 02 trial, and the Keynote-564 trial. Generally speaking, these were well received; indeed quite enthusiastically received in some quarters! Not however in the quarter of prolific ...
Renu's ASCO GU Highlights
GU Cast - February 19, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutesRenu caught up with lots of experts and friends at ASCO GU in San Francisco recently and brings you all the highlights. Hear from Toni Choueiri, Matt Cooperberg (on that debate on renaming low-grade prostate cancer), Todd Morgan, Neha Vapiwala, Morgan Roupret, Sophia Kamran, Morgan Roupret, Sam ...
Bringing LuPSMA earlier | ProsTIC/PCF/ICIS Global Webinar
GU Cast - February 08, 2024 01:00 - 1 hourFor all you enthusiasts of PSMA theranostics, we bring you another one of our fabulous ProsTIC/Prostate Cancer Foundation Global Webinars with some of the best minds in the business. This is the eighth of our collaborative webinars over the past four years and the focus today is bringing lutetiu...
A Touchy Subject | With Victoria Cullen
GU Cast - February 04, 2024 19:00 - 44 minutesA must listen (actually a must WATCH!!) episode of GU Cast if you have any experience with the side-effects of treatment of prostate cancer. Whether you are a patient or loved one, or a surgeon/radiation oncologist/medical oncologist, or a nurse or allied health professional - then this is for y...
APCCC Travel Award Winners Revealed!!
GU Cast - February 01, 2024 19:00 - 3 minutesWe reveal the three winners of our APCCC Travel Awards 2024! These three trainees will be heading off to Lugano for the world's best prostate cancer meeting which takes place from 25-27 April on the shores of Lake Lugano.
Reducing "useless" lymph node dissections with PSMA
GU Cast - January 16, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutesA perennial topic on GU Cast!! But today we welcome a couple of very useful papers in European Urology Oncology which help us understand how PSMA PET/CT can help patient selection for pelvic lymph node dissection in prostate cancer. We are joined by Dr Giorgio Gandaglia from San Raffaele Hospita...
Last few days to enter our great APCCC Lugano giveaway!!!
GU Cast - January 09, 2024 21:00 - 1 minuteA quick message from Renu and Declan about our huge travel award giveaway to start the new year! Closing date Monday 15th Jan 2024 Full details on https://www.gucast.org/
Toni's Top 10 GU Oncology Papers 2023!!
GU Cast - January 08, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutesA truly great Christmas tradition is when Toni Choueiri and his merry band of GU Oncology Fellows at Dana Farber, drop their list of the Top 10 GU Oncology papers of the year. And true to form, Toni's tweet on Christmas Day contains an immaculate list of GU highlights of 2023. A great mixture of...
Christmas Special | Plus our big APCCC Giveaway!
GU Cast - December 24, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutesOur final podcast of 2023 and it's a big one!! Huge festive giveaway with three fully funded GU Cast travel awards to attend the APCCC in Lugano (April 2024) up for grabs. Alastair Lamb zooms in from Oxford to discuss prostate cancer spatial transcriptomics. Kiaran O'Malley (Mater Hospital, Du...
Lymph node dissection!! In GU Oncology
GU Cast - December 15, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutesDr Ashish Kamat (MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston), joins Declan and Renu to discuss a very nice paper recently published in European Urology Oncology overviewsing the role of lymph node dissection (LND) in GU oncology. Really nice piece of work led by Dr Amanda Myers along with a bunch of we...
ARPIs for dummies! Plus the Jiffy Stent
GU Cast - November 30, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutesIt has becoming a familiar refrain around the world , and is certainly good news for the prostate cancer community! This week, another androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) became reimbursed for men with hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer (mHSPC) in Australia. Darolutamide is alre...
Lymph node recurrence - what to do and when??! With Piet Ost, Shankar Siva and Michael Hofman
GU Cast - November 25, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutesSABR supremos Piet Ost and Shankar Siva join us to discuss the management of lymph node-only recurrence following primary treatment of prostate cancer. And of course our resident PSMA PET/CT guru Michael Hofman also turned up as himself and Piet love debating the merits of PSMA! How and when sho...
nmCRPC made easy!! Who, when and how
GU Cast - November 18, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutesProf Fred Saad (University of Montreal) drops in to chat about the interesting condition that is non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC). Which men are at risk of developing metastases? When should we use an AR pathway inhibitor? Why PSMA PET/CT should NOT be used. And hear ...
Big prostate cancer highlights from #ESMO23
GU Cast - November 09, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutesWhat a great ESMO for GU Oncology!! Declan caught up with some plenary speakers in Madrid to discuss the biggest topics. PSMA theranostics with Louise Emmett (ENZA-P) and Oliver Sartor (PSMAfore); ARPIs in biochemical recurrence with Steve Freedland (EMBARK), Morgan Roupret and Boris Hadaschik. ...
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