Urology News

25/09/2025

Clinical trials are essential to advancing cancer treatment, providing the evidence needed to approve new therapies and improve patient outcomes. However, the strict eligibility criteria used – especially in prostate cancer trials – often exclude real-world patients. These criteria prioritise se...

23/09/2025

Ever wondered what a week in urology looks like?

Through ASiT's P4CS/P4CST courses, we're demystifying the specialty - from robotic surgery innovations to balancing clinics & theatre.

📈 89% of trainees say these insights changed their career perspective!
https://www.urologynews.uk.com/education/trainees-forum/post/bridging-the-gap-the-role-of-asit-and-bsot-in-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-urologists

Urology is a highly technical, rapidly evolving specialty and yet under-represented. At a time of significant innovation driven by advances in minimally invasive surgery, endourology and robotics, it is more important than ever to ensure a strong pipeline of motivated and well-informed future urolog...

22/09/2025

📅 1 Oct | 🕧 12:30 BST | 💻 FREE

💡 Learn how HCPs can transform support for families

✅ Case studies 📊 Survey results 🛠 Practical tools

🔗 Learn more and secure your spot:
https://www.urologynews.uk.com/news/post/new-report-the-impact-of-incontinence-on-families-and-support-networks

The charity Bladder & Bowel UK has this week released the findings of a powerful new report. Supported by Attends, this research reveals the often-overlooked emotional, financial, and practical challenges faced by families and carers supporting someone with incontinence. From increased mental health...

19/09/2025

Have you noticed that we just launched our on recently? A collaborative new blog from the teams at Eye News, ENT and Audiology News, The PMFA Journal and Urology News, dedicated to sharing and promoting ideas and writing from early-career healthcare professionals. 🏥

Trainee Matters aims to build a community where we can learn from each other’s perspectives and develop a broader understanding of medical training.

As an early contributor or adjacent healthcare professional, we hope that you will join us in sharing this platform with your existing networks!

👇Read and subscribe now:
https://traineematters.substack.com/

19/09/2025

New research reveals integrin α5β1 acts as a red flag for aggressive tumours in both species.

🧬 Better detection

🎯 Targeted therapies

🐶 Helping pets AND people

Hear from lead scientists:https://www.urologynews.uk.com/news/post/dogs-and-humans-share-a-bladder-cancer-biomarker-a-new-discovery-that-opens-doors-for-early-detection-and-treatment

A new scientific study has identified a new molecular biomarker that could help doctors detect aggressive early-stage bladder cancer, such as high-grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), in both dogs and humans. This discovery advances our knowledge of how aggressive bladder cancer behaves...

19/09/2025

, or , refers to a breach of duty of care by that results in harm or injury to a patient. In the UK, medical negligence is a serious issue that can have profound consequences for patients and their families. Understanding the basics of medical negligence is crucial for ensuring accountability and improving within the .

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12/09/2025

⏰ONE WEEK TO GO TO DEADLINE!

There is just one week left to submit your entries for the sponsored by KARL STORZ, and our judges can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with!

Show us the creative side of urology by sending us your medical images by 19 September. Winners will have the chance to see their artwork in print in a future issue of the magazine as well as receiving an Amazon voucher.

👇To find our more and submit your entries visit https://www.urologynews.uk.com/the-urology-news-imaging-competition-2025/

The Urology Foundation

11/09/2025

Urology Workshops 📣

Attend one of 3 hands-on urology workshops taking place this year on the 16th November in Edinburgh.

⭐Flexible Cystoscopy - The Workshop aims to give delegates the necessary prerequisite information and skills in preparation for training to perform flexible cystoscopies. Delegates will have the opportunity to practice safely on models, as well as discuss any individual issues with our experienced workshop leads while networking with the other delegates. The Workshop is aimed at nurses wanting to learn how to perform flexible cystoscopies or to further develop their skills.

⭐LATP Workshop - This will help prepare Specialist Nurses to perform local anaesthetic prostate biopsies independently. We will provide the theory and practice behind both cognitive and fusion-based local anaesthetic transperineal biopsy procedure. There will also be time for hands on experience with equipment using the latest technology in the presence of trained professionals and industry partners.

⭐Essential Skills - aimed at junior urology nurses or those working in a setting looking after urology patients who require an overview of up-to-date guidelines and the opportunity to practice or update skills. The areas that will be covered in the workshop will include Bladder washouts / maintenance / bladder instillations (not intravesical chemotherapy), Care of nephrostomies, Change of SP catheter / Catheter change over guidewire, Difficult catheterisations, Digital re**al examination, IPSS, bladder diary, Uroflowmetry, urinalysis, bladder scanning.

👉 https://fitwise.eventsair.com/baun-2025/sunday-workshop-programmes

Find out about the British Association of Urological Nurses 2025 conference taking place at the EICC in Edinburgh from 16-18 November 2025.

10/09/2025

Observing robotic surgery felt like watching Surgeons: The Video Game Edition 🎮
But here's the kicker –
The REAL drama was in A&E sims:
⚡️ Split-second decisions
⚡️ Monitors screaming
⚡️ Teamwork that'd put footballers to shame
https://www.urologynews.uk.com/features/features/post/an-amateur-s-trek-into-the-urology-boot-camp

Driven by a strong desire to pursue a career in medicine, I was lucky to get an opportunity to attend the Urology Boot Camp at Leeds while still in sixth form. Although urology is a postgraduate specialty, I wanted to explore procedures, see clinical reasoning being carried out, and I hoped to turn....

08/09/2025

1904: No CT scans. No antibiotics. A swollen kidney & TB bacilli in urine. Remove it? Meet the urine separator - France's ingenious (but painful!) solution for diagnosing renal TB.
https://www.urologynews.uk.com/features/history-of-urology/post/which-kidney-to-remove-the-urine-separator

In this series of articles, I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk) this time helped by Hamza, one of our Leicester registrars who I recently remembered reads French!

05/09/2025

Ever tried flexible cystoscopy? ASiTxBSoT Core Skills Course gives trainees hands-on practice with scrotal exploration, catheterisation + more.

Which urology skill do you find most challenging to master?

https://www.urologynews.uk.com/education/trainees-forum/post/bridging-the-gap-the-role-of-asit-and-bsot-in-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-urologists

Urology is a highly technical, rapidly evolving specialty and yet under-represented. At a time of significant innovation driven by advances in minimally invasive surgery, endourology and robotics, it is more important than ever to ensure a strong pipeline of motivated and well-informed future urolog...