The Prostate Cancer (PCa) Guidelines Panel of the EAU have prepared this guidelines document to assist medical professionals in the evidence-based management of PCa.

Our own vice chairman, Erik Briers, is a member of that PCa Guidelines Panel.

Read the new guidelines here.

Wouter Bulten, from the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and coauthors reported the outcomes of the international PANDA histopathology competition, in which 1,290 deep learning algorithm developers were challenged to come up with reproducible algorithms that could match the findings of human experts.

At least one AI product for detecting prostate cancer – the Paige Prostate system – has already been approved for clinical use in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing it in September 2021, as an adjunct to – but not replacement for – pathologist review.

These algorithms correctly detected tumors in 99.7% of cases, and correctly identified 92.9% of negative results.

Read the article at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01620-2

For our ‘Voices‘ section on the Europa Uomo website, we are looking for your prostate cancer journey to inform fellow prostate patients.

If you are interested to put your prostate cancer story on paper (max. 500 words), please contact our communication advisor Simon Crompton (mail@simoncrompton.com) first to decide which areas you should concentrate on.

Thank you in advance.

On the 2nd day of the 9th Belgian Multidisciplinary Meeting on Urological Cancers (BMUC), our chairman André Deschamps gave a presentation ‘What is the role of the patient in the management of prostate cancer?’.

You can watch the recorded presentation here. Select on ‘BMUC – day 2’, part 3 and watch the recording of the presentation of our chairman.

Do you want to see where active surveillance is heading? Do you have some views you want to share?

Active Surveillance Patients International and the AnCan Virtual Support Group for Active Surveillance and other leading advocates and doctors are holding a webinar, “Your Voice in the Future of Active Surveillance,”  on April 22 at 11 a.m.Eastern/4 p.m. GMT/5 p.m. CET on this topic.

Sign up here ASAP: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtfuuqrzwtHNPuqzkigx65YBk8vV-teUdy

Read the flyer here.