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Later this month, the EAU comes to London for the 32nd Annual Congress and to mark the occasion Prof. Chris Chapple, EAU Secretary General, has written the issue's lead editorial looking forward to the event. The cover image reflects EAU17's logo with a view along the river Thames of Tower Bridge, with the Shard in the background.       ©istock.com/fotoVoyager   Click here for this issue’s Table of Contents    

It is a great pleasure to write this editorial looking forward to the EAU hosting its 2017 meeting in London. The EAU17 meeting promises to be outstanding, with a record-breaking number of abstracts for poster and video presentations submitted for the upcoming 32nd Annual EAU Congress (EAU17) in London. There were approximately 5000 abstracts submitted from 81 countries across the globe, the majority being from Europe and Asia. The overall acceptance rate of the submitted abstracts for both poster…

Ever since 2002, I have performed live surgery almost every year where it is transmitted to an audience eager to learn. This year I was invited by Markus Hohenfellner to the unique conference, Semi Live 2017 in Heidelberg. To say that it was an eye opener is perhaps stating the obvious. One look at the program will show you that the worlds most respected Urological surgeons had been invited to participate, but with a difference. There was no live surgery. Instead videos of operations - open, laparoscopic…

This year’s Annual RSM Urology Section Winter Meeting, hosted by Roger Kirby and Matt Bultitude, was held in Lake Tahoe, California. A pre-conference trip to sunny Los Angeles provided a warm-up to the meeting for a group of delegates who flew out early to visit Professor Indy Gill at the Keck School of Medicine.  We were treated to a diverse range of live open, endourological and robotic surgery; highlights included a salvage RARP with extended lymph node dissection and a robotic simple prostatectomy…

The BJUI has a longstanding track record in promoting the dissemination of high-quality unbiased evidence and helping their readership to understand why the principles of evidence-based medicine matter. This devotion is witnessed by the work that goes into every issue of the journal, as well as past initiatives such as providing a level of evidence rating for clinical research articles or publishing educational articles such as the ‘Evidence-Based Urology in Practice’ series [1, 2]. Major…

The other day, as the New York Times was getting excited about Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan new album 'Triplicate', I had the opportunity of remembering one of his classic songs. Let me explain. I turned up at the School of Surgery in central London for an academic committee meeting early that morning only to find that it had been cancelled. Due to a IT problem the email with this information never reached me! Rather than brave the London tube again, I decided to walk back to my hospital, which took…

The Annual Congress of the International Neuro-Urology Society (INUS), organized by the Swiss Continence Foundation (SCF) Neurogenic urinary tract, sexual and bowel dysfunction is highly prevalent and affects the lives of millions of people worldwide. It has a major impact on quality of life and, besides the debilitating manifestations for patients, it also imposes a substantial economic burden on every healthcare system. It was a great honour and pleasure to organize the 5th International Neuro-Urology…

February's Article of the Month, assessing the accuracy of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT for lymph node staging in intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer, comes from institutions in Sydney and Darlinghurst, Australia. The cover image shows the iconic Sydney Opera House, one of World's most recognisable buildings, and Sydney Harbour Bridge   ©istock.com/RugliG   Click here for this issue’s Table of Contents    

Highlights from the Laparoscopy & Robotics subspecialty meeting at the 50th annual conference of the Urological Society of India (Mumbai, India) It was like Australia and England playing a friendly cricket match in the middle of the Ashes tour…or perhaps Liverpool and Manchester United fans celebrating together in the spirit of bonhomie… In an ably conducted sub specialty meeting during the golden jubilee annual conference of the Urological Society of India, Dr. Mallikarjuna Chiruvella…