Roger Kirby

Roger Kirby was born in Buckinghamshire to Janet Hazel Sturgess, born in Aston, Warwickshire, and Kenneth Stanley Kirby, born in Whitby, Yorkshire. His father was a professor of biochemistry and fellow of the Royal Society who worked as head of cell chemistry at what was then called the Chester Beatty Research Institute. He died in 1967 at the age of 49, when Kirby was 15.{{cite journal |last1=Kirby |first1=Roger |title=Legends in Urology |journal=The Canadian Journal of Urology |date=April 2023 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=11459–11461 |pmid=37074742 |url=https://canjurol.com/abstract.php?ArticleID=3866&version=1.0}}{{Cite journal|date=28 September 2012|title=An interview with Roger Kirby, MA, MD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU|journal=British Journal of Urology International|volume=110|issue=8|pages=1095–1096|doi=10.1111/j.1464-410x.2012.11575.x|pmid=23020700|issn=1464-4096|last1=Kirby|first1=R.|s2cid=28047798|doi-access=}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/619786.professor-honoured-for-his-surgical-work-with-medal/|title=Professor honoured for his surgical work with medal|last=Kon|first=Andrea|date=5 August 2005|website=Bucks Free Press|access-date=12 June 2019}} He attended Berkhamsted School for Boys with his older and younger brother, where the three also played on the school's rugby team.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theprostatecentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TPCStandardisedCVRSK-2.pdf|title=Roger Sinclair Kirby; Curriculum Vitae|last=Kirby|first=Roger|work=The Prostate Centre, London}}

Kirby graduated in medical sciences from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1972 and completed his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital (later merged with University College), where he was inspired by lead urologist Richard Turner-Warwick. He gained his MB BChir from Cambridge in 1975, with a distinction in surgery, the decisive turning point that led him towards surgery rather than cardiology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsm.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-are-governed/professor-roger-kirby-biography/|title=Professor Roger Kirby biography|website=www.rsm.ac.uk|access-date=11 June 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://cambridgemedgrads.co.uk/the-council/|title=The Council – Cambridge Medical Graduates' Society|access-date=13 June 2019}}

Kirby's first house job was at the Cheltenham General Hospital, where he worked with surgeon Peter Boreham, who encouraged him to pursue the field of urology and particularly prostate disease.{{Cite web|title=In conversation with Roger Kirby|url=https://www.urologynews.uk.com/education/interviews/post/in-conversation-with-roger-kirby|access-date=15 September 2020|website=Urology News}} Subsequently, he took up posts at Brighton, Wolverhampton, and Gloucester.{{Cite journal|last=Kirby|first=Roger|date=28 August 2013|title=Changes and challenges: a career in prostate surgery|journal=Future Oncology|volume=9|issue=9|pages=1267–1269|doi=10.2217/fon.13.138|pmid=23980673|issn=1479-6694|doi-access=}} His other teachers have included Ken Shuttleworth and Wyndam Lloyd Davies. He passed in the final Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in 1979.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492249/pdf/annrcse01497-0071.pdf|title=Fellowship of the RCS|work=College and Faculty news|page=496|pmc=2492249}} Kirby later described how a number of people in the 1970s had not heard of the prostate gland. During this time, he had attended to a number of people with large prostates that blocked urine flow and a number of people with inflammation of the prostate, which caused pain. When he did see someone with prostate cancer, only two basic surgical options were available on offer: removing the testicles or an operation that removed the middle of the prostate, the latter being performed to improve the flow of urine.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/may/08/medicineandhealth.lifeandhealth|title=Gland on the run|last=Garfield|first=Simon|date=8 May 2005|work=The Observer|access-date=17 June 2019|issn=0029-7712}}

In 1985, Kirby spent five weeks at the Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA, on a Royal College of Surgeons travelling scholarship.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2498386/pdf/annrcse01539-0065.pdf|title=Hunterian professorship|work=College and Faculty Bulletin Supplement to the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pages=7–9|pmc=2498386}} Earlier, as a research fellow at the Middlesex, he met Clare Fowler and together they published research articles on how nerves work to control the muscles used to control passing urine, work that formed the basis of both Fowler's future contributions to continence issues in people with neurological conditions, and Kirby's doctoral thesis. In 1986 they published their findings that disproved the then widely held belief that retention of urine in some women was psychological or hysterical.{{cite book|last1=Padmanabhan|first1=Priya|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aV6Pup1ZUoUC&pg=PA187|title=Female Urology|last2=Rosenblum|first2=Nirit|publisher=Saunders Elsevier|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4160-2339-5|editor=Raz|editor-first=Shlomo|edition=Third|location=Philadelphia|pages=187–192|language=English|chapter=16. Idiopathic urinary retention in the female|editor-last2=Rodriguez|editor-first2=Larissa V.}} The condition came to be known as Fowler's syndrome and has been found to be potentially treatable.{{cite journal |title=Interview with professor Clare J. Fowler |journal=Queen Square Alumnus Association |date=December 2021 |pages=13–17 |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/sites/ion/files/queen_square_alumni_newsletter_issue_4.pdf}} In the same year he gained his MD from Cambridge, and was elected the Hunterian Professorship with a lecture titled "The Investigation and Management of the Neurogenic Bladder".{{Cite journal|last=Kirby|first=R. S.|date=September 1988|title=Studies of the neurogenic bladder|journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|volume=70|issue=5|pages=285–288|issn=0035-8843|pmc=2498826|pmid=3190128}} It was published in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where Kirby showed how the use of EMG could distinguish between people with pelvic nerve injury, distal autonomic neuropathy, progressive autonomic failure– multiple system atrophy, and idiopathic Parkinson's disease, thus influencing the selection of people for surgery via the urethra.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ics.org/Publications/ICI_4/files-book/Comite-10.pdf|title=Neurologic Urinary and Faecal Incontinence|last=Wyndale|first=J. J.|page=804}} In 1986, as the PSA test was coming into use, Kirby was also appointed consultant urologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and later took over from John Wickham.

Kirby subsequently became one of the first urologists in the UK to perform open radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theprostatecentre.com/about-the-prostate-centre/the-prostate-centre-team/specialist-team/professor-roger-kirby/|title=Professor Roger Kirby {{!}} The Prostate Centre|access-date=16 June 2019}} After watching American urologist Patrick C. Walsh at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, perform open radical prostatectomies for prostate cancer, while simultaneously preserving pelvic nerves, he became a staunch advocate of the procedure. In 1995, he became a professor of urology and director of Postgraduate Education at St George's Hospital, London. By 2005, using a suprapubic transverse incision, Kirby was performing around 130 of these operations a year. Most of these procedures were performed with colleague and anaesthetist Peter Amoroso.

In 2005, Kirby established The Prostate Centre in Wimpole Street, London. He had previously been watching the development of robotic prostatectomies, and in 2005, for the purpose of performing laparoscopic prostatectomies, a da Vinci surgical robot was acquired. This provided better vision of the pelvic nerves and at the age of 55,{{Cite web|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/810403|title=Changes and Challenges|last=Galukande|first=Natasha|year=2013|website=Medscape|access-date=18 June 2019}}{{subscription required}} he became one of the first surgeons in England to use one. From 2005, the Centre therefore offered minimally invasive laparoscopic prostatectomy with a more holistic approach, advising on a wide range of men's health, including diet and exercise.

Over the course of his surgical career, he undertook over 2000 radical prostatectomy operations, of which most of the later ones were robotic.

His high-profile patients have included Corin Redgrave,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzQ2DwAAQBAJ&q=roger+kirby&pg=PT60|title=Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave|last=Markham|first=Kika|year=2014|publisher=Oberon Books|isbn=9781783195992}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatfeedback/4195761/Act-early-to-save-your-life.html|title=Act early to save your life|journal=The Daily Telegraph|date=4 April 2005|access-date=17 June 2019|issn=0307-1235}} Tony Elliott and Stephen Fry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/lifestyle/health/mens-health/stephen-fry-and-his-surgeon-describe-how-it-felt-to-treat-his-cancer-20190306-h1c33m|title=Stephen Fry and his surgeon describe how it felt to treat his prostate cancer|date=2019-03-08|website=Australian Financial Review|access-date=18 June 2019}}

In 1995, Kirby helped found two charities: Prostate Research Campaign and The British Urological Foundation, later renamed The Urology Foundation, which was established with funds from the British Journal of Urology International and the British Association of Urological Surgeons.{{Cite journal|last1=de Winter|first1=Louise|last2=Kirby|first2=Roger|last3=Norris|first3=Steven|date=January 2012|title=The Urology Foundation (TUF): where have we come from, where are we going?|journal=BJU International|volume=109|issue=1|pages=3–4|doi=10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10803.x|issn=1464-410X|pmid=22151750|s2cid=37045550}} His fundraising activities have included climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, trekking in Nepal and cycling across the Andes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theurologyfoundation.org/stories/342-seven-tuf-cycling-challenges|title=Seven TUF Cycling Challenges|website=www.theurologyfoundation.org|access-date=2019-06-13}} By 2005, he had completed three London Marathons.

In 2010, he stepped down as chairman of Prostate UK to become trustee of the newly merged charity Prostate Action. The Prostate Cancer Charity founded by Jonathan Waxman subsequently merged with Prostate Action in 2012 to form one organisation under the title of Prostate Cancer UK,{{Cite web|url=https://prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/news-and-views/2012/8/merger|title=Prostate Cancer UK and Prostate Action announce merger|website=Prostate Cancer UK|access-date=13 August 2019}} of which Kirby became vice-president.{{Cite web|url=https://prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-vice-presidents-and-patrons|title=Our ambassadors|website=Prostate Cancer UK|access-date=13 August 2019}} He is also affiliated with the King Edward VII's Hospital, a charity-registered private hospital in Marylebone, west London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/specialties/urology|title=Urology|website=King Edward VII's Hospital|access-date=13 August 2019}}

Some of his fundraising activities have been accomplished with his late colleague, John M. Fitzpatrick{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10996156/Professor-John-Fitzpatrick-obituary.html|title=Professor John Fitzpatrick - obituary|journal=The Daily Telegraph|date=28 July 2014|access-date=13 June 2019|issn=0307-1235}} and in 2018, he hiked with Sir Marcus Setchell.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/hike-for-hope-sir-marcus-setchell-roger-kirby/|title=Hike for Hope with Sir Marcus Setchell and Roger Kirby|last=Francis|first=Sarah|date=10 September 2018|website=Wellbeing of Women|access-date=17 June 2019}} Kirby's efforts to raise awareness of prostate issues have also involved raising significant funds for prostate charities.

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In 2005, Kirby was jointly awarded the St Peter's Medal by the British Association of Urological Surgeons.{{cite web|url=https://www.baus.org.uk/professionals/baus_business/medals_awards.aspx|title=BAUS|author=The British Association of Urological Surgeons Limited|date=12 December 2011|publisher=BAUS|access-date=26 January 2012}}

Until 2015, he was council member, secretary and trustee of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Subsequently, he was elected president of the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine RSM for 2016/17.

In 2016 he received the Royal College of Surgeons' Clement Price Thomas Award.{{Cite journal|last=Kirby|first=Roger|year=2016|title=Seven habits of highly effective doctors|journal=Trends in Urology & Men's Health|volume=7|issue=3|pages=5|doi=10.1002/tre.517|issn=2044-3749|doi-access=free}} In the same year, he stepped down from the board of trustees of the Urology Foundation and was subsequently made its life president,{{cite web|url=https://www.theurologyfoundation.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-team/board-of-trustees/professor-roger-kirby/ |title=The Urology Foundation |publisher=The Urology Foundation |access-date=20 June 2014}} and took up the role of chair of the academic board of the RSM, In 2019, he was elected to become president of the RSM for 2020, succeeding Sir Simon Wessely.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsm.ac.uk/latest-news/2019/professor-roger-kirby-named-rsm-president-elect/|title=Professor Roger Kirby named RSM President-Elect|website=www.rsm.ac.uk|date=20 August 2019 |access-date=21 August 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918344|title=Modernising the Royal Society of Medicine: We Speak to its President-Elect|last=Harris|first=Siobhan|date=13 September 2019|website=Medscape|access-date=14 September 2019}}{{subscription required}} His inauguration as president of the RSM took place on 28 July 2020.{{Cite web|date=5 August 2020|title=Professor Roger Kirby becomes President of the Royal Society of Medicine {{!}} The Royal Society of Medicine|url=https://www.rsm.ac.uk/latest-news/2020/professor-roger-kirby-becomes-president-of-the-royal-society-of-medicine/|access-date=14 August 2020|website=www.rsm.ac.uk}} In July 2024, he was succeeded by Gillian Leng.{{cite web |title=Professor Gillian Leng CBE vows to "look to the future" as she becomes RSM President |url=https://www.rsm.ac.uk/latest-news/2024/professor-gillian-leng-cbe-vows-to-look-to-the-future-as-she-becomes-rsm-president/ |website=www.rsm.ac.uk |access-date=26 July 2024 |language=en-gb |date=31 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726083114/https://www.rsm.ac.uk/latest-news/2024/professor-gillian-leng-cbe-vows-to-look-to-the-future-as-she-becomes-rsm-president/|archive-date=26 July 2024}}

Kirby married Jane Cooper, who edited Country Living magazine before working as the business manager at her husband's clinic.{{Cite news|url=https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/simon-garfield/prof-roger-kirby|title=A delicate operation|last=Garfield|first=Simon|date=26 February 2013|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=11 June 2019}} They have three children including Joe Kirby, who is a teacher,{{Cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/vanessa-kirby-southwest-londons-hottest-export-a3156416.html|title=Vanessa Kirby: meet south-west London's hottest export|last=Nicol|first=Patricia|date=14 January 2016|website=Evening Standard|access-date=29 November 2019}} and Vanessa Kirby,{{Cite news|url=http://vitahealthcare.com/img/cms/articles/lycomato/2,010-09-05-%20Mail%20on%20Sunday%20PROF%20ROGER%20KIRBY.pdf|title=Doctor heal thyself|date=5 September 2010|work=Health News|access-date=12 June 2019}} who is an actress.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-londoner-theatres-keen-to-take-back-power-a3842461.html|title=The Londoner: Theatres keen to take back power|date=18 May 2018|website=Evening Standard|access-date=12 June 2019}}

Kirby checked his PSA annually, constructing his own personal PSA slope which remained low.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/casenotes_tr_20080520.shtml|title=BBC - Radio 4 - Case Notes Transcript 20/05/2008|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=17 June 2019}}{{Cite journal|last1=Kirby|first1=Roger|last2=Hanbury|first2=Damian|last3=Anderson|first3=John|last4=Vesey|first4=Sean G.|year=2013|title=A tale of four prostates|url=http://www.theprostatecentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Trends-Feb-2013-Kirby-Tale-of-Four-Prostates.pdf|journal=Trends in Urology & Men's Health|volume=4|issue=2|pages=29–31|doi=10.1002/tre.322|s2cid=56134725|doi-access=free}} However, in 2012, at the age of 61, he noticed a rise and following a 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging, transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy and bone scan, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgical treatment for the condition he had treated throughout his surgical career. A Gleason 3+4=7 1.3cc adenocarcinoma was completely resected and he made a full recovery.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/31/surviving-prostate-cancer|title=Surviving prostate cancer: a prostate surgeon's story|last=Garfield|first=Simon|date=31 March 2013|work=The Observer|access-date=15 June 2019|issn=0029-7712}}

Following treatment, he was one of four surgeons who freely discussed the diagnosis, treatment and its implications, and featured in a "Tale of Four Prostates" with an accompanying video in 2013. He stated that he "hope(d) that the openness about our own diagnoses and management will help to dispel the taboo that still haunts this most common of cancers of men".

Kirby has published more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications, authored 68 books and founded two scientific journals: Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases and Trends in Urology and Men's Health.{{cite news|author=Amelia Hill, social affairs correspondent |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/02/health.gender |title=The Guardian |location=UK |access-date=26 January 2012 |date=2 September 2007}} He has also been an associate editor of the British Journal of Urology International.

In The Prostate: Small Gland Big Problem, one section was written by Clive Turner, who had undergone a radical prostatectomy himself and subsequently counselled other men considering the same option. In his textbook Men's Health, dedicated to premature death in men, particularly his father, he, his brother Mike Kirby and colleague Culley C. Carson III, attempt to address the gender gap in mortality.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-NyCQAAQBAJ&q=Textbook+of+Men's+Health+carson+cully&pg=PR18|title=Men's Health|last1=Kirby|first1=Roger S.|last2=Carson|first2=Culley C.|last3=Kirby|first3=Michael G.|last4=White|first4=Alan|year=2009|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780415447331|edition=3rd|pages=xviii|chapter=Preface}} His book Fast facts: Prostate Cancer entered its tenth edition in 2020.{{cite journal |last1=Challacombe |first1=Ben |title=Book review: Fun Facts – Prostate Cancer |journal=Trends in Urology & Men's Health |date=2020 |doi=10.1002/(ISSN)2044-3749 |url=https://trendsinmenshealth.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/05/Book-review-MayJun.pdf|access-date=17 January 2021}}

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=GZ2iKZTLbi0C&q=roger+kirby An Atlas of Erectile Dysfunction]. Taylor & Francis (2003), {{ISBN|9781842142417}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=qmO6GwAACAAJ&q=the+prostate+centre Your Guide to Prostate Cancer]. Hodder Arnold (2005). {{ISBN|9780340906200}}. (With Claire Taylor)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zkd44xEOPaQC&q=roger+kirby Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice]. Taylor & Francis (2006), {{ISBN|9781841844589}}. (With Alan W. Partin, Mark Feneley and J. Kellogg Parsons)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=HnBdAAAACAAJ&q=roger+kirby The Prostate: Small Gland Big Problem]. Health Press Limited, (2006), {{ISBN|9781903734896}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=pteJDwAAQBAJ&dq=Succeeding+as+a+Hospital+Doctor%3A+The+Experts+Share+Their+Secrets.&pg=PP1 Succeeding as a Hospital Doctor: The Experts Share Their Secrets]. Health Press (2007). {{ISBN|978-1-903734-79-7}}. (With Tony Mundy)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1036235695 Men's Health]. London: Routledge (2009). (3rd Edition). {{isbn|9780415447331}}. Co-edited with Carson C. Cully III, Michael Kirby and Adrian White
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=8E1D1H4PjuUC ABC of Prostate Cancer]. Wiley-Blackwell (2011). {{ISBN|9781444346916}}. (With Prokar Dasgupta)
• [https://www.karger.com/Book/Home/279387 Fast Facts: Prostate Cancer]. Karger (2020). 10th Ed. {{ISBN|978-1-910797-37-2}}. (With Manish I. Patel)

• [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2498826/pdf/annrcse01552-0027.pdf Studies of the neurogenic bladder], Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England, (A summary of a Hunterian Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 4 September 1986), Vol. 70, No. 5. (1988), pp. 285–288
• [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1028810/pdf/jnnpsyc00097-0070.pdf "Urethro-vesical dysfunction in progressive autonomic failure with multiple system atrophy"], co-authored with Clare Fowler, John Gosling and Roger Bannister, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol. 49, (1986), pp. 554–562
• [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.10985.x "The trouble with men"]. British Journal of Urology International, 23 February 2012 {{doi|10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.10985.x}}. (With Michael Kirby, Culley Carson and John M. Fitzpatrick)
• [http://www.bjuinternational.com/bjui-blog/richard-turner-warwick/ "Richard Turner-Warwick"] British Journal of Urology International (2014). (With Christopher Chapple)
• [http://www.theprostatecentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Trends-Feb-2013-Kirby-Tale-of-Four-Prostates.pdf "A tale of four prostates"]. Trends in Urology and Men's Health, March/April 2013 (With Damian Hanbury, John Anderson and Sean G. Vesey)

• [https://www.theprostatecentre.com/media-centre/patient-news/view/portrait-of-a-prostate-uk-supporter/ "Portrait of a Prostate UK supporter"]. 16 March 2009
• [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11463.x "UK Prostate Charities Merge"]. British Journal of Urology International, First published: 29 August 2012. (With Owen Sharp, Paul Forster, and Jonathan Waxman)
• [http://www.bjuinternational.com/bjui-blog/ "Are you ready to go to prison on a manslaughter charge?"]. British Journal of Urology International (2014)
• [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/02/five-ways-stop-men-dying-prostate-cancer/ Five ways to stop men dying from prostate cancer]. The Telegraph, 2 February 2018
• [https://trendsinmenshealth.com/surge-in-prostate-cancer-referrals-following-stephen-frys-diagnosis/ Surge in prostate cancer referrals following Stephen Fry's diagnosis]. Trends in Urology and Men's Health, 13 September 2018

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_L_HL1-t1k Professor Roger Kirby talking about a prostate healthy diet]
• [https://trendsinmenshealth.com/video/tuf-cycle-india-2016/ The Urology Foundation (TUF)fundraising cycle journey], A team of fundraising enthusiasts (including Roger Kirby, Editor of Trends in Urology & Men's Health) cycled from Agra to Jaipur in Rajasthan, India to raise funds for The Urology Foundation (TUF)
• [https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1-episode-1-prostate-cancer-what-is-it-what-are-symptoms/id1393029991?i=1000412748138 1: Episode 1: Prostate Cancer - What is it, what are the symptoms, how is it diagnosed and how is it treated?], Susan Burnett interviews leading prostate cancer expert Professor Roger Kirby
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmKcsDlOq0 From doctor to patient: Three urologists face prostate cancer]

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