Newsletter #20
📰 The prostate care news
🎓 Utilization of Prebiopsy Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Prostate Cancer Detection
MRI has emerged as an important tool for prostate cancer early detection. Despite its utility, insurance coverage for prebiopsy MRI is variable, with previous studies suggesting dramatic underutilization.
🎓 Local anaesthetic transperineal biopsy versus transrectal prostate biopsy in prostate cancer detection (TRANSLATE): a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial
Local anaesthetic ultrasound-guided transperineal biopsy (LATP) is gaining popularity in this setting; however, there is uncertainty regarding prostate sampling, infection rates, tolerability, side-effects, and cost-effectiveness.
🧬 What's up at Koelis?
🎬 A look back at AUA 2025 in Las Vegas
AUA was a huge success for the Koelis team this year and we couldn't be more pleased to have met so many prominent medical professionals at our booth and throughout Las Vegas during the meeting.
🎙️The era of precision medicine
In this episode, Dr Samuel Yee, from Hong-Kong, talks about cryotherapy, image quality and the use of rectal spacer in Focal Therapy.
📆 Thai Urological Oncology Society Annual Meeting
Our team has participated to three workshop during the Thai Congress: MRI contouring (ProMap Lite), MRI fusion biopsy (Koelis Trinity), and Focal therapy (Targeted Microwave Ablation).
👥 Let's meet!
We will attempt some congresses in the next few months. Here are some of the events we will attend:
✔️06/04 - NUF (Sweden)
✔️06/11 - Nordkongress (Germany)
✔️06/11 - Spanish Urology Congress (Spain)
✔️06/12 - JOUM (France)
✔️06/12 - National Simposium in Urology (UK)
✔️06/16 - BAUS (UK)
✔️06/19 - UROnco (Spain)
✔️06/25 - SWDGU (Germany)
✔️06/27 - CUA (Canada)
Our team is looking forward to meeting you!