Royal Melbourne Hospital

The Urology Department at the Royal Melbourne Hospital provide a comprehensive urological service and also provide urological expertise to the neighbouring Royal Women’s Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Their team includes consultant urologists, fellows, a registrar, residents, interns and a specialist urology nursing team that, in combination, provide specialised clinical services for all adult urological conditions including urological cancers, stone disease and continence problems.

In 2000, Cybec Foundation became interested in research work being conducted by the Urology Department under the leadership of Professor Anthony Costello and decided to support two post-graduate research projects. Cybec Foundation has since supported a number of research projects among the research staff of clinical trial nurses, one research fellow and a laboratory team working between the University of Melbourne and the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre which is allied with an established sister organisation based in Queensland.

The projects supported include:

Dr Jeremy Grummet, laser welding of the anastomosis in radical prostatectomy (2000)

Ms Helen O'Connell, catheter management in radical prostatectomy (2000)

Dr Jeremy Grummet, tissue adhesive anastomosis for laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (2001)

Dr Tim Larner, targeted MRI contrast for the accurate staging of prostate cancer (2001)

Dr Niall Corcoran and Ms Meri Najdovska, the management of prostate cancer (2003)

Dr David Syme, selenate and prostate cancer (2004)

Matthew Fankhauser, improved methods of treatment for prostate cancer (2007)

Nikhil Sapre, gene expression in bladder cancer (2012)