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Accurate staging of clinically localized prostate cancer is crucial to ensure patients receive optimal management and counseling. Despite the growing number of diagnostic modalities, however, accurate staging remains a challenge. In this Viewpoint, Mitchellet al. discuss the relative merits of tried and tested and newly emerging staging techniques.
Developments in endourologic procedures now mean that the majority of patients with upper tract transitional cell carcinoma (UTTCC) can be offered minimally invasive treatments. Michael Ost and colleagues review the different procedures and adjuvant treatments available, and their suitability for patients with UTTCC.
The incidental finding of small renal masses is becoming a more common event as a result of widely used cross-sectional imaging techniques. This review by Alessandro Volpe and Michael Jewett discusses the risks of tumor progression, techniques for assessing tumors and the different management options available to patients with renal cell carcinoma.
Penile reconstructive surgery requires expertise in genital surgery, whether it is for traumatic injuries or penile cancer. The stages of initial assessment and management of traumatic penile injuries and penile cancer, and the different reconstructive techniques available, are described in this review by David Ralph and colleagues.
