US study examines family-based help offered to spouses of PCa patients
Friday, 28 March 2008 - Few studies has been done on how spouses of prostate cancer patients cope with emotional distress but the same studies indicate that spouses also report feeling tired and tense, having sleep problems, and...
Links between ED and LUTS demand closer investigation
Friday, 28 March 2008 - The pathophysiologic links between lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and erectile dysfunction (ED) can potentially impact the way physicians diagnose and treat urologic disorders. This was one of the...
Indwelling urinary catheter is the most important risk factor for NAUTI
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - MILAN - The prevalence of nosocomial urinary tract infections (NAUTI) was 10 percent in the PEP-study (Pan European Prevalence Study), 14 percent in the PEAP-study (Pan-Euro-Asian Prevalence Study) and...
The clinical significance of micro-metastatic lymph node disease in kidney and bladder cancer
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - MILAN - Treatment failure in bladder and kidney cancer following definitive surgery with curative intent is one of the most important urological problems unsolved so far. In his today's state-of-the-art...
Human papillomavirus: will immune-modulation help natural disinfecting of the virus?
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - A special program “Meet the Expert” was held on Human papilloma virus today. The experts were professor Sandra Mazzoli from Santa Maria Annunziata Hospital, Sexual Transmitted Diseases Center,...
Debate on nephrectomy in EAU-ESMO joint session
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - A joint session of the European Association of Urology (EAU) and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) featuring a debate on metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) highlighted the...
Conventional imaging is no longer sufficient in mapping regional lymph nodes
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - Prof. Michael Jewett spoke on the detection and mapping of regional lymph nodes in his lecture on the second day of the 23rd EAU Annual Congress held in Milan, Italy. Jewett underscored that...
Rotterdam Team First to Characterise PCa - Derived Exosomes Role as Novel Biomarker ‘Treasure Chests’
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - The potential for exosomes to play a vital part in the early detection of prostate cancer (PCa) and the accurate prediction of outcome has come a step nearer. Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center...
New EAU guidelines on the management of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction
Friday, 28 March 2008 - The European Association of Urology (EAU) are pleased to announce the release of several new updates of their guidelines at the occasion of their annual meeting held in Milan, March 26th-29th, 2008. One of...













