UroToday.com – Urology residents are involved with performing transrectal-ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsies during their training. Satisfactory accomplishment of this skill is a competency necessary for urologic practice. A group from the Glickman Institute at the Cleveland Clinic evaluated whether with proper training and supervision, resident urologists are able to perform TRUS biopsy...

A new study has shown that the introduction of smoke-free legislation has not led to an increase in children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in their own homes. Read Full Article

New figures show there was a steady decline in cancer deaths in the European Union between 1990-1994 and 2000-2004. Read Full Article

UroToday.com – The best management of patients with small renal masses is the nephron sparing approach. This has been well shown to improve patients’ long-term renal function while providing equivalent oncologic management of their disease compared to open radical surgery. Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) is a technically challenging surgical procedure and as such has been slow...

HealthDay – Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Read Full Article

Reuters – A decline in smoking in Europe and better screening mean fewer people are dying of cancer, but lung cancer deaths in women are rising in places like Scotland and Hungary where more women smoke, doctors said on Monday. Read Full Article

AFP – Up to 10,000 people die of cancer every year in England because they are diagnosed too late, a top government health official said on Monday. Read Full Article

Purple Hoot is raising money for Cancer Research UK this Christmas through sales of its real virtual eCards. Read Full Article

UroToday.com – The purpose of the clinical study was to evaluate whether quantitative parameters of tumor vascularisation assessed by DCE-MRI enable the determination of the morphologic grading of renal cell carcinomas non-invasively. Our prospective study included 21 patients suspected of having renal cell carcinoma with a mean age of 61.5 years. 8 patients had to be excluded prior to the study...

UroToday.com – Radiotherapy, given in 20-25 fractions over 4-5 weeks, is usually the second choice for the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, behind radical cystectomy. Only patients unfit or unwilling to undergo surgery are referred for radiotherapy. An advantage of radiotherapy is that the healthy part of the bladder can be saved in case of a uni-focal lesion. Read Full Article