Really honoured to have won the Hans Marberger Award for best European paper on Minimally Invasive Surgery in Urology along with my friend and co author Eoin Dinneen. Success is best enjoyed when its shared! Grateful to the incredible NeuroSAFE PROOF team and patients who participated in the trial!

All countries!

Could faster MRI scans allow more men to receive timely #ProstateCancer diagnoses? Research published in @jama.com led by @veerukasi.bsky.social, Dr Alex Ng & Dr Aqua Asif at @ucl.ac.uk compares the efficacy of shortened versus standard-length scans. Grab a ☕ & read: doi.org/10.1001/jama...

We had a blast at the Fungi Festival debuting our new Fungi Workshop + Foraging Game! 🍄🌧 Big thanks to everyone who joined us in the rain + mud, and congrats to our game winners! We've also teamed up with the Great Science Share to create 3 fab fungi resources - check them out here: buff.ly/bK2LCnZ

Current "informed consent" policies on PSA-screening lead to higher incidence of metastatic prostate cancer in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11

“If you want to see the ocean, you have to cut the land”. 📊 (So glad to find a cartography post in the hot feed)

A long time ago in a manuscript far, far away.... Happy #StarWarsDay! – #MayTheFourthBeWithYou, always.

Prostate cancer, race and the need for tests | Letters

GU Cast celebrates these two excellent clinical trials run in the NHS supported by @nihr.bsky.social #TRANSLATE #NEUROSAFE MEDIA both presented in plenary #EAU25, both published @thelancetoncol.bsky.social 😀👏

New Research: A phase 3 trial assessing NeuroSAFE-guided robot-assisted radical prostatectomy vs standard robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in #prostatecancer for nerve-sparing surgery and erectile function recovery bit.ly/4iBzF7C

Happy #TolkienReadingDay to all who celebrate! Please enjoy this map of Middle Earth, annotated by the man himself and including several locations not mentioned in the books:

Excited to finally share the primary results of the NeuroSAFE PROOF trial! Huge thanks to our incredible team and, most importantly, the patients who made this research possible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Building on this morning’s #NeuroSAFE data, @nikhilmayor.bsky.social presents late-breaking results from #IP8FLUORESCE, assessing the diagnostic accuracy of FCM for detecting positive margins intra-op Feasible, quick and good sensitivity and specificity for detecting margins ≥3mm! #EAU25 🇪🇸

Prostate cancer surgery breakthrough offers hope for erectile function

Dear all, if you're a doctor/other healthcare professional, pls help our Dutch colleagues with a question that bedevils us all 👿 How/when/do you change a urinary cath when you've diagnosed infection? Short survey <2 min #IDSky #UTISky #Clinmicro #MedSky #CAUTI #AMS #AMR @merellambregts.bsky.social

Next up: PhD Fellow @ajwlight.bsky.social presents an update from the multicentre blinded #IP8FLUORESCE study evaluating #ConfocalMicroscopy for margin status in #RadicalProstatectomy - recruitment complete and results out on Monday 24/03 at #EAU25 🇪🇸

I'm excited to announce that we’ll be presenting the much-anticipated results of the *NeuroSAFE PROOF trial* at *EAU25 in Madrid*! 🗓 *Date:* Monday, March 24, 2025 🕙 *Time:* 10:00 AM 📍 *Location:* Green Area, eURO Auditorium 1 Join us at this Game Changer Session

📢 LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT "We welcome applications from a range of experience levels, from senior trainees to junior trainees to house officers or medical students" - Mr @veerukasi.bsky.social, BURST Director 🗓️ Apply by Feb 28th: redcap.slms.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=3... #BURST10 #UroSoMe

How does #prostatecancer recur after radiotherapy? Alisha Pati-Alam, Susan Heavey and the team at UCL highlight this key question in their commentary of an important new meta-analysis on salvage therapies. Grab a ☕and read more: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

"If you are going to write a scientific paper for publication, you are also going to have to write a response to reviewers". Advice on "How to write a response to reviewers" from a group of editors who've ready many, many thousands of such responses. www.europeanurology.com/article/S030...

we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience

Thoights on brain size, birth, and the ignorance of obscene wealth open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Patient-centered pathology reports improved patients' understanding of prostate biopsy results and their ability to accurately assess their cancer diagnosis and risk level, compared to standard pathology reports. ja.ma/4a3c38z

Bonus effect. When a drug for diabetes significantly reduces kidney stones, results of a randomized trial of empagliflozin (Jardiance), a SGLT-2 inhibitor, in people without diabetes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers found “that the costs Walmart imposes in the form of not only lower earnings but also higher unemployment in the wider community outweigh the savings it provides for shoppers.”

About time! And great news for everyone who commutes in central London www.westminstercycling.org.uk/c43-approval

Vitally important study with NPV>96% for clinically significant prostate cancer. How many other cancer diagnostics have reached this level to spare patients invasive procedures while identifying those that need interventions?

#PathSky 34M with a jet-black mass next to the seminal vesicle. Melanoma? A very occasional psammoma body was present, and expression of PRKAR1A was completely lost. Malignant melanotic nerve sheath tumor (previously “melanotic schwannoma”) in an unusual location.

📣 New perspective paper: Insights into durability against resistance from the antibiotic nitrofurantoin We discuss what makes nitrofurantoin robust against resistance evolution, in spite of prolonged and extensive usage against UTIs #MicroSky Open access/CC-BY-4.0: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #Overtreatment of #prostatecancer persists, especially using #radiotherapy. This continues to be the biggest barrier to equitable #populationscreening for #earlydetection. We must stop doing it. #activesurveillance @uroweb.bsky.social

Really useful 2 days #UR-UK in Bristol. Meeting of 32 research-active UK urologists ToR: networking to identify areas for game-changing research in Uro-oncology Grateful for support from TUF, J&J, Astellas & Medac Will be fascinating to see organic development of this group over next few years.

Culturally-tailored prostate cancer info sessions for Black men boosted PSA tests by 25%. Knowledge is power! #HealthLiteracy #CancerScreening pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The protocol paper for the IP8-FLUORESCE trial is now published #openaccess in @bjuijournal.bsky.social ! Excellent work led by Nikhil Mayor and Matt Winkler Keep tuned for the results! Read for free: https://buff.ly/48ZquK5

Had an amazing day at the North Central London Cancer Alliance meeting, great presentations and posters. Our little contribution is the Buddy Program for Black African/Caribbean patients with prostate cancer at UCLH

Ok Not really sure what I’m doing but this #ProstateCancer starter pack has been created It is meant to be INclusive so please let me know if you know anyone who wants so “join” @asharpmedonc.bsky.social @nimasharifimd.bsky.social @alison-tree.bsky.social @profiand.bsky.social go.bsky.app/ANw3D3j

How do you do #UroSoMe?