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Open AccessThe ERUS course on robot-assisted kidney transplantation
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) is being increasingly performed at selected referral institutions worldwide. Yet, surgical training in RAKT is still unstructured and not grounded into formal crede...
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Open AccessRadical cystectomy or trimodality therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a qualitative study exploring patient priorities and counselling needs when making a treatment choice
This study aims to explore the priorities and counselling needs of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer faced with a decision between radical cystectomy and trimodality therapy.
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Comparative study between the use of double J ureteric stents vs bander ureteric stents during robotic-assisted radical cystectomy with intra corporeal ileal conduit urinary diversion
Robotic-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) is fast becoming the standard of care with comparable oncological outcomes to open surgery for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Ileal conduit is by far t...
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Multicentric exploration of tool annotation in robotic surgery: lessons learned when starting a surgical artificial intelligence project
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential to reduce surgical risks and improve surgical assessment. Machine learning, a subfield of AI, can be used to analyze surgical video and imaging data. Man...
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Clinical outcomes of low-pressure pneumoperitoneum in minimally invasive urological surgery
The adoption of minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques has revolutionised urological practice. This necessitates a pneumoperitoneum (PNP) and the impact the PNP pressure has on post-operative outcomes is u...
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Robotic Renal Transplantation
Kidney transplantation (KT) is considered one of the cornerstones in the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) since transplanted patients reach superior survival rates and an improved quality of life co...
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Pushing the Boundaries in Robot—Assisted Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Cancer
This chapter covers robotic assisted partial nephrectomy including preoperative planning with 3D models, hilar control, tumour resection and future developments.
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Open AccessEvaluating the impact of 18F-FDG-PET-CT on risk stratification and treatment adaptation for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (EFFORT-MIBC): a phase II prospective trial
The outcome of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) remains poor, despite aggressive treatments. Inadequate primary staging, classically performed by computed tomography (CT)-imaging, could lead...
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Robotic-assisted kidney transplantation in obese recipients compared to non-obese recipients: the European experience
The main objective was to compare minor (Clavien I–II) and major (Clavien ≥ III) intra- and postoperative complications of living donor robotic assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) in obese (≥ 30 kg/m2 BMI), ov...
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Exercise prescription dose for castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients: a phase I prescription dose escalation trial
To determine the start exercise prescription dose in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients receiving second-line hormone treatment and recommended phase II exercise prescription.
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Health-related quality of life overview after different curative treatment options in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: an umbrella review
This umbrella review aims to evaluate the quality, summarize and compare the conclusions of systematic reviews investigating the impact of curative treatment options on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) i...
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Correction to: Metastasectomy for visceral and skeletal oligorecurrent prostate cancer
The authors have requested the removal of the Excel file in Electronic Supplementary Material to protect patient’s privacy
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Robot-assisted nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma: results from three high-volume robotic surgery institutions
Robot-Assisted NephroUreterectomy (RANU) represents a minimally invasive alternative to open NephroUreterectomy (NU) for management of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (UTUC) but its oncologic safety is still ...
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Importance of metastatic volume in prognostic models to predict survival in newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer
To explore the prognostic importance of metastatic volume in a contemporary daily practice cohort of patients with newly diagnosed metastatic hormone-naive prostate cancer (mHNPC) and to develop a pragmatic pr...
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Metastasectomy for visceral and skeletal oligorecurrent prostate cancer
Metastasis direct therapy (MDT) is a common practice in different fields of oncology. However, there is a lack of data on surgical MDT in visceral/skeletal oligometastatic prostate cancer (PCa). We aimed to as...
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Patient- versus physician-reported outcomes in prostate cancer patients receiving hypofractionated radiotherapy within a randomized controlled trial
The risk of develo** acute radiotherapy(RT)-induced side effects may increase with hypofractionated RT. To detect treatment-related side effects, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) might be more reliable than ...
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Open AccessCombined high dose radiation and pazopanib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a phase I dose escalation trial
The primary objective was to determine maximum tolerated radiation dose in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma on pazopanib treatment.
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Open AccessA phase I/II trial of fixed-dose stereotactic body radiotherapy with sequential or concurrent pembrolizumab in metastatic urothelial carcinoma: evaluation of safety and clinical and immunologic response
Current first-line standard of therapy for metastatic urothelial carcinoma is platinum-based combination chemotherapy. Pembrolizumab in phase III has demonstrated a promising overall response rate of 21.1% in ...
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Open AccessAdjuvant radiotherapy after radical cystectomy for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer: a phase II trial
Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy with extended pelvic lymph node dissection is considered to be the treatment of choice for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Despite ...
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Open AccessSurveillance or metastasis-directed Therapy for OligoMetastatic Prostate cancer recurrence (STOMP): study protocol for a randomized phase II trial
Metastases-directed therapy (MDT) with surgery or stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is emerging as a new treatment option for prostate cancer (PCa) patients with a limited number of metastases (≤3) at recu...
