Latest Gu oncology Podcast Episodes
LuTectomy in European Urology
GU Cast - November 01, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutesThe LuTectomy trial has just been published in European Urology, and as the GU Cast team have been very much involved, we thought we should dive into the details on today's podcast. LuTectomy is a clinical trial to evaluate the role of 177-Lutetium-PSMA prior to radical prostatectomy. Declan is ...
More Shark Patting | With Tim Baker
GU Cast - October 19, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutesOne of our most popular episodes in 2022 was "Patting the Hormone Therapy Shark" with author, surfer and prostate cancer survivor, Tim Baker. And a lot has happened in the 12 months since so we invited Tim back for a follow-up chat in this Themed Podcast supported by our GU Cast Gold Partners, M...
Three big questions in high-risk prostate cancer | With Boris and Tyler
GU Cast - October 15, 2023 01:00 - 50 minutesWe hijacked our good friends Professor Boris Hadaschik (Urologist, Essen, Germany), and Associate Professor Tyler Seibert (Radiation Oncologist, University of California, San Diego), who happened to be in Melbourne this week, and diverted them into the GU Cast studio for a chat about high-risk p...
Going Nuclear at EANM in Vienna
GU Cast - October 04, 2023 17:00 - 28 minutesThe European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Annual Meeting is the World's leading nuclear medicine extravaganza! Today we cross live to Professor Michael Hofman and friends to hear some of the GU highlights at this year's annual meeting in Vienna. Michael is joined by Prof Ken Herrmann,...
Are female surgeons better than men??!
GU Cast - September 10, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutesThe mass media were quick to pick up on two papers in JAMA Surgery last week with headlines such as "Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons", and "Should you pick the sex of your surgeon?". So what's it all about?? We chat with lead author of one of these papers. Dr Chris Wallis, Uro...
Let's skip PSA testing! And go straight to an MRI scan...
GU Cast - August 31, 2023 06:00 - 32 minutesIs this the solution to screening for prostate cancer?? Don't bother with a PSA test and instead screen using a 10 minute MRI scan??! Re-IMAGINE is a very interesting prospective study published in BMJ Oncology this week which did exactly that with some really interesting findings. We are joine...
Spacing the Rectum! With Peter Orio & Shankar Siva
GU Cast - August 24, 2023 03:00 - 25 minutesWhat is a rectal spacer and do they help reduce side-effects from prostate radiation??! That's today's topic on GU Cast. Renu caught up with rectal spacer enthusiasts Professor Peter Orio (Dana Farber Cancer Institute) and Associate Professor Shankar Siva (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) in downt...
The European Urology Podcast is coming soon!!
GU Cast - August 19, 2023 06:00 - 3 minutesHere's a quick plug for another podcast that GU Cast is very happy to support! Launching in September 2023, the European Urology Podcast is a new monthly podcast to accompany the world's highest ranked urology journal, European Urology. Co-hosted by Professor Declan Murphy in Melbourne and Dr Jo...
Shiny Happy Editors talk Impact Factors
GU Cast - August 10, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutesMajor scientific journals only change their Editor-in-Chief every 8-10 years so it's quite a big deal when it happens! Today we chat with Professor Alberto Briganti, incoming Editor-in-Chief of European Urology, the world's highest ranked urology journal, and with Professor Morgan Roupret, inco...
GU Cast hosts do battle at ANZUP ASM!!
GU Cast - August 01, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutesDeclan and Renu as you haven't seen them before! They leave their cosy podcast studio to do battle at the Australia & New Zealand Urogenital & Prostate Trials Group (ANZUP) Annual Scientific Meeting! The battleground is renal cancer, with Renu arguing in favour of adjuvant immunotherapy, and De...
Remembering Christchurch | A GU Cast Special
GU Cast - July 25, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourThis, our 100th episode, is a very special GU Cast, in which we remember the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake, which hit just as the Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand (USANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) was kicking off in the city. 185 people lost their lives with many th...
Alpha PSMA & New Targets in Prostate Cancer | ProsTIC/PCF Global Webinar
GU Cast - July 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourThis is for hardcore PSMA aficionados!! This is the 7th of our ProsTIC/Prostate Cancer Foundation Global Webinars focussing on all things PSMA theranostics (you can find the rest in our back catalogue stretching back to April 2020). We peek into theranostics beyond what we currently have with be...
Avoiding cystectomy for high-grade bladder cancer
GU Cast - July 13, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutesDr Sima Porten from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), was in Melbourne this week for the ANZUP Annual Scientific Meeting (more from that in an upcoming episode), so she popped into the GU Cast studio to chat with Renu and Declan. Renu of course spent a year with Sima and colleag...
Bladder cancer bonanza | With Dr Sia Daneshmand
GU Cast - June 29, 2023 20:00 - 36 minutesTwo cracking bladder cancer studies to discuss on GU Cast today (in our brand new GU Cast studio)! We are joined by Dr Sia Daneshmand, Urologist and Director of Urologic Oncology at the University of Southern California, who presented the headline-making Tar-200/SunRIse-1 study at the recent Ann...
Is SABR the best way to radiate the prostate??!
GU Cast - June 18, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutesStereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) has been a great tool for managing low volume metastatic prostate cancer for a few years now. One or two visits to the radiation centre, highly targeted, minimal side-effects. So could it be used to treat the primary prostate cancer itself with simi...
ARPIs reimbursed for mHSPC | Urologists take note!
GU Cast - June 11, 2023 01:00 - 35 minutesWith approvals and reimbursement increasing all the time for the use of AR pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), we chat today about how front-line clinicians need to make sure we are making the most of these opportunities for our patients. Urologist...
ChatGPT - This is nuts!! AI goes mainstream
GU Cast - December 16, 2022 00:00 - 39 minutesSo if you haven't seen all the fuss about ChatGPT on social media in the past two weeks, then imagine this. You have to write a 500 word introduction to an article on adjuvant therapy following renal cancer surgery, you are a week past deadline and you have writer's block. Or it's your thankles...
The PCF Retreat 2022 | Highlights from Carlsbad
GU Cast - December 12, 2022 01:00 - 50 minutesThe annual Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) Retreat is in its 29th year, and is the showpiece event of the PCF's incredible research program. Each year, PCF investigators from around the world gather in California to share their work and interact together. Fair to say it has developed a legendar...
Gleason 6 prostate cancer | Why we should rename it (and why we can't)!
GU Cast - December 03, 2022 20:00 - 37 minutesIs grade group 1 (Gleason 6 in old money) really prostate cancer? Wouldn't life be a little easier for patients (and the rest of the world) if we could somehow remove the label "cancer" from this relatively indolent condition?? Well this decade-old discussion seems to have developed a lot of mom...
Let's Visit Ireland! The Irish Society of Urology Annual Meeting
GU Cast - November 27, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutesA GU Cast Ireland Special! Declan recently travelled to the Annual Meeting of the Irish Society of Urology and posted this GU cast special from Killashee House in County Kildare. Apologies in advance for him wallowing in his Irishness! Declan catches up with Urologists David Bouchier-Hayes, Ev...
Patting the Hormone Therapy Shark | with Tim Baker
GU Cast - November 17, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutesOK this episode of GU Cast is essential listening for anyone who has anything to do with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), or "hormone therapy", for men with advanced prostate cancer. Whether you are a prescriber (especially if you are a prescriber), nurse or allied health professional, patien...
PSMA and kidney cancer??? Apparently so!
GU Cast - October 23, 2022 20:00 - 33 minutes"Prostate Specific" Membrane Antigen PET/CT - now also available to stage kidney cancer! We seriously need a name change here. Already we know that PSMA PET/CT shows a lot more than the prostate/prostate cancer, but could it have utility in staging renal cancer?? We've certainly had a lot of off...
Let's talk bladder cancer!
GU Cast - September 20, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutesA great episode focussing on two aspects of bladder cancer. Bladder preservation for muscle-invasive cancer is in the limelight again following the recent update of the landmark BC2001 trial. We chat with bladder cancer gurus Dr Neha Vapiwala, Radiation Oncologist at the University of Pennsylvan...
The Missing | Where are all the prostate cancers?
GU Cast - September 15, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutesIt's pretty shocking how many prostate cancers went missing during COVID, especially in Melbourne which experienced the most prolonged lockdown in the world. The data is still being cleaned but it is estimated that up to 3000 men who would have been expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer ...
Radiation for renal cancer??!! Really??!!
GU Cast - September 08, 2022 02:00 - 35 minutesIt wasn't that long ago that we would have scoffed at the idea of using radiation therapy to treat primary kidney cancer. Not any more!! We are joined by two top experts in kidney cancer, and leaders of ongoing research in this field, to discuss the expanding role for radiation therapy in managi...
Radiation for renal cancer??!! Really??!!
GU Cast - September 08, 2022 02:00 - 35 minutesIt wasn't that long ago that we would have scoffed at the idea of using radiation therapy to treat primary kidney cancer. Not any more!! We are joined by two top experts in kidney cancer, and leaders of ongoing research in this field, to discuss the expanding role for radiation therapy in managi...
Six big things in metastatic prostate cancer
GU Cast - September 01, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutesInternational speaker tours are back! And this week we had two fantastic GU oncology experts visiting Australia to do a lecture tour on hot topics in metastatic prostate cancer. So of course we invited them to attend our multidisciplinary team meeting at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, then pop ...
Six big things in metastatic prostate cancer
GU Cast - September 01, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutesInternational speaker tours are back! And this week we had two fantastic GU oncology experts visiting Australia to do a lecture tour on hot topics in metastatic prostate cancer. So of course we invited them to attend our multidisciplinary team meeting at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, then pop ...
A quick update on GU Cast plans! Onwards and upwards
GU Cast - August 16, 2022 23:00 - 9 minutesIt's been two and half years since we posted our first GU Cast and it's been fun! We are so grateful to all our listeners and viewers for supporting us, sending us great comments, and getting involved in the conversation. GU Oncology is such a fast-moving world, and we have really enjoyed postin...
Another fantastic ProsTIC/PCF PSMA theranostics webinar
GU Cast - August 07, 2022 22:00 - 1 hourGU Cast is pleased to cross-post another of these excellent ProsTIC PSMA theranostics webinars in collaboration with the Priotate Cancer Foundation's Global Knowledge Exchange programs. This webinar focuses on the new era of PSMA theranostics post-FDA approval. This webinar is co-hosted by Prof...
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