Scientific Programme

16 May 2025 - Friday
  HALL A
13.00 - 15.00 Prostate cancer screening and diagnosis
Moderators:Ali İhsan Taşçı, Bülent Günlüsoy, Hasan Bakırtaş
13.00 - 13.15 Current evidence and ongoing projects in screening programmes (OPT trial, PROBASE trial, TRANSFORM trial, PRAISE-U) / Murat Bozlu
13.15 -13.30 Prostate micro ultrasound / Massimo Lazzeri
13.30 - 13.45 Targeted + Perilesional prostate biopsy: Is it a new approach to hit the bullseye? / Mehmet Çağlar Çakıcı
13.45 -14.00 Fundamentals in biparametric vs multiparametric mpMRI imaging for local diagnosis and staging / Rüştü Türkay
14.00 - 14.15 Limits of active surveillance in prostate cancer and the effect of imaging on active surveillance / Asıf Yıldırım
14.15 - 14.30 Focal Therapies / Öztuğ Adsan
14.30 - 15.00 Round Table (Prostate cancer localise disease)
Moderator: Bülent Akduman
(Case presentation: 52 yrs, PIRADS-4, MCCL < 6mm ISUP 2, 10% GP4, BRCA2 +)
Özcan Yıldız, Ugur Selek, Sinan Kireççi, Nesrin Gündüz, Tolga Karakan
15.00 - 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15 - 17.05 Prostate cancer high risk disease and locale advanced disease 
Moderators: Abdurrahim İmamoglu, Bilal Eryildirim, Mehmet Kutlu Demirkol
15.15 - 15.30 Radical prostatectomy (Retzius sparing - Pelvic fascia sparing - How to avoid positive margins during nerve-sparing) / Antonia Galfano
15.30 - 15.50 Can PET PSMA spare extended pelvic lymph node dissection?
Yes ? Selcuk Sahin
No ? Meftun Culpan
15.50 - 16.05 Radiotherapy for prostate cancer / Esengül Koçak
16.05 - 16.35 Satellite Symposium
- Aymed -
Phototherapy in Urologic Cancers
Moderator: Derya Balbay
Panelist: Ömer Küçük
16.35 - 17.05 CASE PRESENTATION – Patients with high risk and locale advanced prostate cancer
Moderator: Sakıp Erturhan
Panelist: Selahattin Bedir, Mahmut Gümüş, Didem Karacetin, Murat Polat
17.05 - 18.05 Semi-live (Video) Section (Prostate Cancer)
Moderator: Erdal Apaydın, Sacit Nuri Görgel
  Case 1: Robotic radical prostatectomy in the large prostate / Cüneyt Özden
Case 2: Perineal prostatectomy / Selami Albayrak
Case 3: Robotic prostatectomy after radiation and HIFU / Volkan Tuğcu
Case 4: Tips and tricks of lymphadenectomy during radical prostatectomy / Osman Raif Karabacak
17 May 2025 - Saturday
  HALL A
08.00 - 09.15 Locale advanced disease and recurrence disease in Prostate Cancer
Moderators: Yusuf Özlem İlbey, Alpaslan Özgün
08.00 - 08.10 Evolving Landscape of Advanced Prostate Cancer: Guidelines and Case-Based Discussion / Necip Pirinççi
08.10 - 08.20 The role of neoadjuvant treatment in locally advanced disease / Nazım Demircan
08.20 - 08.30 Is all PSA persistence equal? - Optimal treatment of PSA persistence after radical prostatectomy / Rahim Horuz
08.30 - 09.00 Current approach to management of high-risk biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy
Moderator: Derya Balbay
Panelist: Eyüp Veli Küçük, Serdar Karadağ, Turgay Turan, Nilüfer Durankuş
- Early salvage RT w/o ADT
- Systemic treatment alone
09.00 - 09.15 Radioligand Therapies for Advanced Prostate Cancer / Levent Kabasakal
09.15 - 09.30 Coffee Break
09.30 - 10.20 Opening Ceremony
Congress Chairman: Volkan Tuğcu
Turkish Urology Association Chairman: Irfan Orhan
Honorary President of Turkish Urology Association: Ateş Kadıoğlu
Eurasion Onkology Association Chairman: Ali İhsan Taşçı
Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus: Ünal Üstel
10.20 - 10.50 Satellite Symposium
- Recordati-
Mechanism of Mixed-Acting Agents in Patients with Overactive Bladder and Propiverine Dosing Options
Moderator: Rahmi Onur
Panelists: Mehmet Gökhan Çulha
10.50 - 12.10 Advanced disease in Prostate Cancer
Moderators:  Öner Odabaş, Sadık Görür, Hasan Rıza Aydın
10.50 - 11.05 Radical prostatectomy should not be forgotten in oligometastatic prostate cancer / İlker Seçkiner
11.05 - 11.20 Double vs triple therapy in de novo mHSPCa / Çağatay Arslan
11.20 - 11.40 Shaping treatment according to genomic profile mHSPCa / Deniz Tural
11.40 - 12.10 Panel: What should be the decision-making algorithm in mCRPC?
Moderator: Çağatay Arslan
Panelists: Erdem Koç, Deniz Tural, Nilüfer Durankuş, Levent Kabasakal
12.10 - 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 - 14.15 Bladder Cancer Session – Diagnosis of bladder cancer and low-risk NMIBC
Moderators: Sebahattin Aydın, Ömer Sarılar, İlhan Geçit
13.00 - 13.15 VI-RADS: MRI Protocols, Lesion Characterization, and Pitfalls / Aytül Hande Yardımcı
13.15 - 13.30 Deintensification of Treatment for Low-grade Bladder Tumors / Bekir Aras
13.30 - 13.45 Is there a way to skip cystoscopy during follow-up of low and intermediate NMIBC / Fuat Kızılay
13.45 - 14.00 Treatment strategies for low-risk NMIBC (Fulguration as day care protocol) / Emre Şam
14.00 - 14.15 Treatment strategies for low-risk NMIBC (Chemoablation in mutated tumors) / Ural Oguz
14.15 - 14.45 Satellite Symposium
-Astra Zeneca-
The Evolution of Prostate Cancer Treatment from Zoladex to Lynparza

Panelists: Mahmut Gümüş, Nurettin Cem Sönmez
14.45 - 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 - 15.40 Bladder Cancer Session – High risk NMIBC
Moderators: Hasan Sağlam, Zafer Gökhan Gürbüz, Ali Çift
15.00 - 15.20 Patient with high-risk NMIBC: Is BCG still the best option in 2025?
Yes, BCG is still king / Berat Cem Özgür
No, time to dethrone BCG / Levent Özdal
15.20 - 15.30 Management of intravesical therapy complications / Özgür Kazan
15.30 - 15.40 Recurrence after BCG in high-risk NMIBC: something else than RC? / Sacit Nuri Görgel
15.40 - 16.10 Satellite Symposium
- Medinova -
Robotic HIFU
Panelists: Giovanni Lughezzani, Giray Ergin
16.10 - 16.40 Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer
Moderators: Fikret Halis, Mustafa Güneş
16.10 - 16.20 Low- -risk upper tract urothelial cancer: how safe is to preserve nephrons? / Angelo Territo
16.20 - 16.40 Case presentatiton (Patient with high-grade upper tract disease: Neoadjuvant or adjuvant systemic therapy?)
Moderator: Alper Ötünçtemur (Case Presenter)
Panelists: (2 MO)
Adjuvant therapy / Polat Olgun
Neoadjuvant therapy betterMustafa Atcı
16.40 - 17.25 Semi-live Section (Bladder Cancer)
Moderators: Ömer Levent Tuncay, Hüseyin Koçan
  Case 1:  Partial cystectomy – Yaşar Özgök
Case 2: Orthotopic Neobladder Reconstruction - Halil Bozkurt
Case 3: Cystectomy İn WomenAli Fuat Atmaca
HALL B
07.30 - 08.45 Laser Enucleation of the Prostate Masterclass Course
Moderators: Bahadır Topuz, Resul Sobay, Erol Uçaner
07.30 - 07.45 Equipment of prostate laser surgery and optimal patient selection / Taner Kargı
07.45 - 08.00 En-bloc technique / Ergün Alma
08.00 - 08.15 Trilober technique / Murat Arslan
08.15 - 08.30 Complications / Utku Can
08.30 - 08-45 Bipolar Technique / Taylan Oksay
10.30 - 12.15 Oral Presentation 1
Moderators: Bülent Erkut,  Hüseyin Aytaç Ateş, Mithat Ekşi
   
13:15 - 15.00 Asian Turkic Republics Session
Moderators: Rauf Nağıyev, Fuad Guliyev, Volkan Tuğcu
13.15 - 13. 30 Kidney transplantation in uro-oncological patients / Reşad Şolan
13.30 - 13.45 Benign and precancerous lesions of the bladder / Rashad Mammadov
13.45 - 14. 00 Robot-assisted radical cystectomy with intracorporeal ileal neobladder (Bordeaux technique) / Cüneyt Özden
14.00 - 14.15 The role of laparoscopic surgery in the upper urinary tract / Elbeyi Daşdemirov
14.15 - 14.30 Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy in Uzbekistan: early experience and clinical outcomes / Zarifhoja Bakhadirkhanov
14.30 - 14.45 New Robotic Systems / Halil Lutfi Canat
14.45 - 15:00 The role of minimally invasive surgery in urooncology: Our experience / Xusan Umurzakov
15.00 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 17.00 Balkan Countries Session
Moderators: Taner Yusuf, Gezim Galiqi, Ali İhsan Taşçı
15.15 - 15.30 Survivin gene expression in bladder cancer / Bujar Frangu
15.30 - 15.45 Treatment of Kindey Tumors in Albania / Aurel Janko
15.45 - 16. 00 Tips and Tricks in Robotic Cystectomy / Volkan Tuğcu
16.00 - 16.15 Testosteron paradigm in Prostate Cancer / Senad Bayramovic
16.15 - 16.30 Latest innovations in urology practice in North Macedonia / Benjamin Kulovac
16.30 - 16.45 Laparoscopic and robotic surgery for kidney tumors / Yılmaz Arslan
16.45 - 17.00 Clinical Approach to urinary bladder tumors at the urology clinic in Skopje / Skender Saidi
17.00 - 17.15 Relationship of the rs2279744 polymorphysm in the MDM2 gen with the invassivnes of blader carcinoma / Ardian Prenaj
18 May 2025 - Sunday
  HALL A
08.00 - 09.20 Bladder Cancer Session – MIBC and Advance Disease
Moderators: İsmet Yavaşcaoglu, Enver Özdemir, Aykut Colakerol
08.00 - 08.10 Bladder preservation protocols in MIBC: What’s new? / Selçuk Erdem
08.10 - 08.20 Limits of lymphadenectomy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer - Mehmet Giray Sönmez
08.20 - 08.35 Systemic therapy for advanced bladder cancer / Emir Çelik
08.35 - 08.50 Health related quality of life after curative treatment for muscle invasive bladder cancer / Rahmi Arslan
08.50 - 09.20 Can we avoid radiation in the new consolidation treatment landscape with optimal systemic therapy?
Moderators: Özkan Polat, İbrahim Karabulut
Case Presenter: Asıf Yıldırım
- Yes: Avoid radiation, systemic therapy is enough / Seval Ay
- No: Radiation mandatory with systemic therapy / Nilüfer Durankuş
- No: Surgery mandatory with systemic therapy / Oktay Akça
09.20 – 09.50 Satellite Symposium
- Recordati -
ELIGARD® IN PROSTATE CANCER TREATMENT: CLINICAL CASE REPORTS AND SUCCESS STORIES
Moderator: Bülent Akduman
Panelist: Alper Bitkin
09.50 - 10.00 Coffee Break
10.00 - 11.00 Bladder Cancer Session – Metastatic Disease
Moderators: Turgut Yapanoğlu, Mehmet Kaynar, Ömer Yılmaz
10.00 - 10.15 Local treatments of oligometastatic bladder cancer, when and how? / Muammer Bozkurt
10.15 - 10.30 Current approaches in the beyond first line treatment of metastatic bladder cancer / Hüseyin Salih Semiz
10.30 - 10.45 Management of the postoperative urological complication in patients with MIBC / Ömer Levent Tuncay
10.45 - 11.15 Anesthesia and Cardiology Consultations in Urology
Patients using blood thinners: Bleeding or obstruction? / Kamil Mehmet Tugrul
Preoperative cardiac evaluation in urological patients / Hasan Burak İşleyen
11.15 - 12.00 Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in Urooncology
Moderator: Ali İhsan Taşçı, Abdülvahit Sözüer
Panelists: İhsan Karaman, Eyüp Gümüş, Mahmut Gümüş, Selami Albayrak
12.00 - 12.45 Lunch Break
12.45 - 14.15 Renal Cancer Session - 1
Moderators: Sedat Soyupek, Fatih Oguz, Nilüfer Bulut
12.45 - 13.00 Are there any changes in the management of complex renal cysts in 2025? / Ahmet Keleş
13.00 - 13.15 Genomic profiling and novel therapeutic target of renal cell carcinoma- Who, When, and How? / Seher Yıldız Tacal
13.15 - 13.30 Is there a role for multiparametric MRI in kidney tumors? Does it provide additional advantages? / Nesrin Gündüz
13.30 - 14.00 3 cm SRM-risk stratification for SRM
Moderators:  Muhammet Güzelsoy, Fatih Uruç
- Surveillance / Mustafa Aydın
- PN / Yiğit Akın
- Focal Ablation / Pilar Laguna
14.00 - 14.15 New developments in renal cell carcinoma treatment / Ezgi Oymak
Radiotherapy for renal cell carcinoma
14.15 - 14.45 Satellite Symposium –
Alchemlife: PROSTAQUIL: Improvement in BPH and Chronic Prostatitis Symptoms Without Side Effects
Moderators: Volkan Tuğcu, Ömer Sarılar
Panelist: Faruk Özgör
14.45 - 15.00 Break
15.00 - 15.30 Renal Cancer Session - 2
Moderators: Erdal Apaydın, Soner Güney, Cemil Kutsal
15.00 - 15.10 Cytoreductive and consolidation radical nephrectomy timing and candidates / Serkan Altınova
15.10 - 15.20 Best approach for a renal tumor with caval thrombus (Open / Robotic) / Faruk Özcan
15.20 - 15.30 Case-Based Session: Failure of Immunotherapy in Renal Cell Cancer: What’s Next? / İlkay Gültürk
15.30 - 16.10 Satellite Symposium
- Abdi İbrahim -
Penile rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy

Panelists: Ateş Kadıoğlu, Volkan Tugcu, Asıf Yıldırım
16.10 - 16.30 Case presentatiton (Keeping up with the pace in renal cell cancer)
Moderators: Zeki Bayraktar, Burak Arslan
  Presenter: Sinan Celen
Panelists:
High risk RCC, adjuvant treatment
- Surveillance is beneficial / Ezgi Oymak
- Adjuvant IO is beneficial / Özcan Yıldız  
16.30 - 16.50 Case presentatiton (Management of recurrence after curative surgery: New standard of care?)
Moderators: Ercan Yeni, Fatih Akkaş
  Presenter: Mehmet Çağatay Çiçek
Panelists: Asıf Yıldırım, Özcan Yıldız, Esengül Koçak
16.50 - 17.40 Semi-live Section (Kidney Cancer)
Moderators: Ahmet Yaser Müslümanoğlu, Ediz Vuruşkan, Erdem Kısa
16:30 - 16:40 - Case 1: Multipl tumor / Mutlu Ateş
- Case 2: Vena cava trombosis / Volkan Tuğcu
- Case 3: Total endophitic / Yusuf Kasap
  HALL B
07.30 - 09.00 Penile Rehabilitation after Uro-oncology Surgeries: Masterclass Course
Moderators: Ateş Kadıoğlu, Sefa Resim, Irfan Orhan
07.30 - 07.45 Which patient should receive phosphodiesterase inhibitors, and when? / Ufuk Çaglar
07.45 - 08.00 Stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction / Murat Dursun
08.00 - 08.15 Li-ESWT therapy for erectile dysfunction / Şahin Kılıç
08.15 - 08.30 Penile prothesis implantation (penoscrotal / infrapubic) / Orhan Koca
08.30 - 09.00 Is penis enlargement necessary after radical prostatectomy? / Ateş Kadıoğlu
10.00 - 12.00 Video Presentation 1
Moderators: Ufuk Öztürk, Bilal Hamarat, Mustafa Erkoç
   
12.45 - 14.15 Oral Presentation 2
Moderators: Özkan Polat, Mehmet Kaynar, İsmail Evren
   
14.30 - 15.30 Incontinence following radical prostatectomy
Moderators: Adem Fazlıoglu, Burhan Coşkun, Aslı Başaran
14.30 - 14.45 Definition of incontinence after radical prostatectomy and methods for assessing incontinence / Mehmet Gökhan Çulha
14.45 - 15.00 Pelvic Floor Muscle Training After Radical Prostatectomy: Its Role and Importance / Ece Özkan
15.00 - 15.15 Medical Treatmenf of incontinence after radical prostatectomy / Hakan Çakıcı
15.15 - 15.30 Midurethral sling procedures for incontinence after radical prostatectomy / Rahmi Onur
15.30 - 16.00 Artificial Urinary Sphincther / Hakan Akdere
16:00 - 17:05 Post-Prostatectomy strictures: Anastomosis strictures, Bladder neck strictures, Urethra strictures
Moderators: Selami Albayrak, Murat Tüken, Emre CanPolat
16.00 - 16.15 Muscle and vessel sparing urethroplasty / Abdurrahim İmamoglu
16.15 - 16.35 Medical treatment, Endoscopic treatments and Stents / Kubilay Sabuncuoğlu
16.35 - 17.05 Surgical repair
- Anastomosis strictures, Bladder neck strictures, Urethra strictures after RT   / Rahim Horuz
- Post-Prostatectomy strictures after radical prostate? / Fatih Yalçınkaya
19 May 2025 - Monday
  HALL A
08.00 - 09.00 Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Moderators: Abdullah Demirtaş, Murat Zor, Gökhan Gökçe
08.00 - 08.10 Combination therapies for LUTS / Emre Altıntaş
08.10 - 08.20 Holmium / Murat Arslan
08.20 - 08.30 Thulium or Thulium Fiber? Which energy to which patient? / Fatih Özkaya
08.30 - 08.40 REZUM / Cüneyt Sevinç
08.40 - 08.50  Laparoscopic adenomectomy / Mehmet Çağatay Çiçek
08.50 – 09.00 Discussion
09.00 - 10.00 EAU Session - What’s new in the 2025 congress?
Moderators: Adem Altunkol, Selamettin Demir
09.00 - 09.15 Prostate Cancer / Abdullah Yavuzsan
09.15 - 09.30 MIBC /  Kürşat Küçüker
09.30 - 09.45 Renal Cell Carcinoma / Enis Mert Yorulmaz
09.45 - 10.00 Coffee Break
10.00 - 11.00 The Assistants in Competetion
Moderator: Ali İhsan Taşcı
11.00 - 12.00 Video Section - Rare Surgical Procedures in Urology Practice
Moderators: Cahit Şahin, Metin Öztürk
11.00 - 11.15 Robotic nephroureterectomy / Selahattin Bedir
11.15 - 11.30 Robotic bladder neck reconstruction / Gökhan Sönmez
11.30 - 11.45 RPLND / Eyüp Veli Küçük
11.45 - 12.00 Laparoscopic Surrenalectomy / Hüseyin Çelik
12.00 - 12.30 Closing Ceremony
  HALL B
07.30 - 09.05 What urologists should know about MpMRI: Masterclass Course
Moderators: Atilla Semerciöz, Kerem Taken, Mehmet Zeynel Kesin
07.30 - 07.45 Scoring system of PIRADS classification for urologists / Rüştü Türkay
07.45 - 08.00 Transperineal prostate biopsy performed under local anesthesia / Erdem Öztürk
08.00 - 08.15 Transperineal fusion biopsy / Akif Erbin
08.15 - 08.30 Robotic fusion biopsy systems / Murat Zor
08.30 - 08.45 micro usg füzyon kursu / Giray Ergin
08.45 - 09.05 Interactive discussion – case
09.30 - 11.30 Oral Presentation 3
Moderators: Muzaffer Akçay, Ayhan Karaköse, Cabir Alan
   
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