Latest Research — Dr James Thompson is an experienced Urological Surgeon specialising in robotic surgery for prostate and bladder cancer

Dr James Thompson is an experienced robotic, laparoscopic, endoscopic and open urological surgeon. He has sub-specialty training in (and passion for) the treatment of prostate, bladder and kidney cancer using the latest robotic surgery techniques and for high-impact cancer research that has the ability to immediately improve quality of life and cancer cure rates for the community.

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Feb 1
Feb 1 MRI Bladder trial - interim analysis of first 100 patients shows high value of mpMRI

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Sep 22
Sep 22 Final analysis of the landmark MRI in Active Surveillance trial published in Journal of Urology

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Sep 22
Sep 22 Excellent outcomes are achievable with salvage robotic prostate removal following nanoknife irreversible Electroporation focal therapy

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Sep 22
Sep 22 New system developed and published for differentiating malignant (cancerous) from benign (non cancer) lumps in the kidney

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Mar 11
Mar 11 World first trial of intra-operative PSMA-guided lymph node removal during prostate cancer surgery published in leading journal

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Oct 17
Oct 17 Early results presented at AUA from our world-first DETECT trial of robotic PSMA-gamma probe guided lymph node removal during prostate cancer surgery

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Sep 11
Sep 11 Landmark PRIMARY Trial published in European Urology

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Sep 11
Sep 11 Dr Thompson, together with Prof Louise Emmett and colleagues, announces the PROPELLOR trial of Cu64 PSMA PET is now open and enrols first patient

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Aug 26
Aug 26 Dr Thompson opens world-first multi-centre study using new MRI technology to enhance the accuracy of staging for bladder masses

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May 31
May 31 New Research into Long-term Outcomes after Brachytherapy

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May 31
May 31 Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics will improve prostate cancer diagnosis

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May 5
May 5 New research study into bladder exosomes to diagnose and predict treatment response in bladder cancer

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Apr 1
Apr 1 New potential breakthrough study opened for non muscle invasive bladder cancer as alternative to bladder removal (cystectomy) if cancer comes back after BCG

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Mar 15
Mar 15 New multi-parametric MRI kidney research shows benefit in distinguishing cancers from benign lumps

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Aug 4
Aug 4 New MRI kidney research breakthrough in differentiating benign from cancerous lumps in kidney

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Jul 31
Jul 31 Dr Thompson invited to join the editorial board of the prestigious British Journal of Urology International

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Jul 31
Jul 31 Dr Thompson and colleagues publish important study of outcomes following salvage robotic surgery after failed focal HIFU ablation therapy

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Jul 19
Jul 19 PRIMARY Trial world-first prospective study of PSMA-PET CT prior to diagnostic biopsy in men suspected of prostate cancer

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Jul 19
Jul 19 Large cohort of outcomes at 3 years following Nanoknife focal ablation therapy published in European Urology Oncology

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May 26
May 26 New Study proves that Tool estimating individuals' risk of prostate cancer based on MRI etc (developed by Dr Thompson and team) performs as well or even better than any similar tools worldwide

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