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EPAD20: Prostate cancer on the radar for inclusion in the EU Cancer Plan
EPAD20 partners highlight the necessity of early detection and awareness raising of prostate cancer Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan (EU Cancer Plan) and the EU’s Mission on cancer could offer a number of opportunities for early detection and awareness raising...
ERUS-DRUS20 Day 1: Virtual Robots
The EAU’s premier robotic urology event has started. Not in Düsseldorf as originally intended (and long hoped for), but as a two-day virtual event. The EAU Robotic Urology Section has years, if not decades, of experience with live transmissions...
EPAD20: A landmark for early detection and awareness raising of prostate cancer
Prostate cancer (PCa) is impacting increasing numbers of men and is the most frequent male cancer in Europe with important consequences for healthcare systems. Yet, compared to other common cancers, little is performed at EU level. Nine partners therefore...
The EAU RF’s “start-up package” for beginning researchers
Dr. Alvaro Aytes (Barcelona, ES) was finishing his postdoc in the United States when he started exploring funding opportunities for a new research project. “I was an associate research scientist at Columbia University in New York, and after seven...
New report urges action to eliminate 87,000 cancer cases caused each year by HPV in Europe in women and men
The European Cancer Organisation’s major new report, Viral Protection: Achieving the Possible. A Four-Step Plan for Eliminating HPV Cancers in Europe (published today), calls for urgent action to eliminate most of the 87,000 cancer cases caused in men and...
EAU endorses European Code of Cancer Practice (The Code)
On 23 September, the European Cancer Organisation launched the European Code of Cancer Practice (The Code). As a committed member of the European Cancer Organisation and in our responsibility to facilitate patient care at the highest of standards, the...
In memoriam: Mr. Richard Turner-Warwick (1925-2020)
Mr. Richard Turner-Warwick, the father of reconstructive urology and Willy Gregoir Medal winner, passed away on Sunday 20 September 2020 at the age of 95. Turner-Warwick was a highly esteemed colleague, a giant within urology both in the UK...
EAU pushes for the inclusion of early detection of prostate cancer in the EU Cancer Plan
Prof. Hein van Poppel at the European Parliament on World Cancer Day (4 February 2020) In its constant devotion to improving patient care, the EAU has become increasingly active in the European political landscape. Prof. Hein Van Poppel (Leuven,...
European survey shows alarmingly low awareness of erectile dysfunction: Majority does not know what it is
Awareness of erectile dysfunction (ED) is alarmingly low in men and women aged 20 to 70, a new survey1 commissioned by the European Association of Urology (EAU) has revealed. Majority of the respondents do not know what ED exactly entails,...
EMUC20 is now a Virtual Congress!
In a change for uro-oncology experts across Europe, the 12th European Multidisciplinary Congress on Urological Cancers (EMUC20) is now a two-day virtual congress. While the organisers had hoped that the EMUC congress could be held physically like every year, the...
EAU kicks off its first ever virtual Annual Congress
Today marks a new chapter for the European Association of Urology. For its 35th edition, the Annual EAU Congress is taking place not in a major European capital, but online. The scientific programme of the regular congress was re-arranged into...
Impact factor debut for EU Focus and all-time high for European Urology
Editors are delighted with the newly released impact factors for the EAU’s journals. European Urology, its oldest and most widely cited journal jumps to an impact factor of 17.947 for 2019, marking a new high. This exceeds the previous...