Robotics will dominate but new surgical manipulators are on the rise
Saturday, 29 March 2008 -MILAN - In a state-of-the-art lecture on ‘Surgical manipulators: an alternative to the robot?’ presented on the last day of the 23rd EAU Annual Congress in Milan, Italy, Dr. Ingolf Tuerk said there...
See you in Stockholm 2009!
Saturday, 29 March 2008 - MILAN - The souvenir session organized by the EAU Scientific Congress Office ended this year's annual meeting. For the first time in EAU history, more than 13,000 attendants were registered. Urologists...
European initiative to develop tailored treatment of prostate cancer by biomarkers
Saturday, 29 March 2008 - MILAN - The prostate cancer biomarker research in clinical setting of active surveillance (PROCABIO) is part of the PRIAS study (Prostate Cancer International Study of Active Surveillance) and aims...
EAU 2008: First Meet-the-Expert Sessions Successful
Saturday, 29 March - MILAN - The first Meet-the-expert sessions, a new feature at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology, proved to be quite successful. These sessions are press meetings with eminent...
Gene Therapy: A real alternative to conventional treatments for prostate cancer?
Saturday, 29 March 2008 - MILAN - Use of gene therapy as a clinical technique has fallen into disregard recently, mainly because of adverse effects and a lack of long term efficacy. Norman Maitland, Professor of Molecular Biology...
Prostate cancer: Family care for patients and spouses
Saturday, 29 March 2008 - MILAN – The 23rd annual meeting of the EAU was a success for European Association of Urological Nurses (EAUN). 273 participants registered at this congress and attended the state-of-the-art sessions...
General Assembly: EAU members re-elect Wirth and Chapple
Friday, 28 March 2008 - Professors Manfred Wirth and Chris Chapple were re-elected in their current positions as Treasurer and Adjunct Secretary General for Education, respectively, of the European Association of Urology (EAU)...
Awarded abstract confirms the superiority of intravesical BCG compared to intravesical chemotherapy with epirubicin
Friday, 28 March 2008 - MILAN - Intermediate and high risk stage Ta T1 papillary carcinoma of the bladder are the topic of an abstract of the EORTC-Genitourinary Group. The EAU Scientific Committee selected this presentation for...
Perioperative chemotherapy could be a new strategy for bladder preservation
Friday, 28 March 2008 - New insights in bladder cancer were presented by Cora Sternberg, MD, from Rome during today’s meet-the-expert session on oncology. Perioperative chemotherapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer possibly...










