
John Rewcastle, PhD
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Not a urologist but I study urology: prostate cancer screening, biopsy, treatment & harm reduction. Also dabble in regulatory affairs. Opinions are my own.
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Here's what we know already for Aquablation vs HOLEP Juan Justo Quintas recent paper at 6 MONTHS: Aqua = 0% leakage. 95% ejn preserved HOLEP = 4% leakage. 11% ejn preserved #WATER3 to provide early recovery at 1 & 3 months? % of men needing pelvic physio?

Congratulations to Exact Imaging and our colleague Moises Socarras for the publication of the OPTIMUM trial in JAMA demonstrating non-inferiority of microultrasound vs MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis ICUA




John Rewcastle, PhD Exactly what I think. Calling "continence" 0-1 pads is absolute bullshit. Continence means no leaks ever, no pads

Imperial Prostate Deepika Reddy Hashim U. Ahmed Focal Therapy Society Traditional risk classification strategies don’t seem to work for surveillance, radiation or surgery either… they all need to be revisited and updated. At the very least they need to include mpMRI guided biopsy.


Joseph Norris Failed may not be the right word in as much as ‘clinically significant’ is no longer the right word (‘actionable disease’ is better). We don’t say AS failed at progression but certainly the man is on the path to more Tx harm. Any ideas on a more appropriate term?

Nikolaos Liakos A level of reasonableness needs to be applied - hard to define though. I agree that a safety pad for M1 should be considered part of recovery. Beyond that I can’t get behind - much of the Retizus sparing literature considers a man using a safety pad at M12 continent 🙄

Prospective multinational multistudy data from 528 patients showing safety, efficacy, durability and reproducibility of #Aquablation for #LUTS due to #BPH for small, medium and large prostates #EAU25 Dean Elterman Dr_KevinZorn





Totally agree with Kara Watts that the DRE is dead but good luck convincing the GPs of this….



Inderbir Gill of USC Urology presented the game changing design of WATER IV PCa at #AUA25: a randomized comparison of whole gland Aquablation and prostatectomy. The outcome could fundamentally change the management of #prostatecancer for many men


JAMA Oncology IMHO this would be more meaningful / relevant if the analysis was based on GG at biopsy not final path. Even better would be to include upgrade rate (Bx to final) evolution over the years.

Alexander Kenigsberg Focal Therapy Society Focal One Profound Medical I have immense respect for this effort and congratulate Eduard. Unfortunately, interpretation is precluded by (1) randomization broken by crossover (25% in RP arm) and (2) asymmetric primary endpoints. Simply can’t have different primary endpoints for the two arms.


Talking about Biden’s #prostatecancer in terms of Gleason scores rather than International Society of Urological Pathology grade groups is a step backwards and an unfortunate missed opportunity for patient education.