This Month in Adult Urology

Abstract

Some months back I wrote in this column that readers who thought there were too many prostate cancer papers in The Journal of UrologyÒ should be delighted since there were only a few such papers in that issue. I also warned that was likely not to persist and this issue shows that prophecy to be true as more than two-thirds of the articles in this issue are on prostate cancer.Neither of these situations (too many or too few prostate cancer articles) was planned. There is no target threshold for papers on a particular topic and it is the policy of The Journal to consider and publish manuscripts that reach across the entire domain of urology. Indeed, in this issue, in addition to the Pediatric Urology Section and Urological Survey Section, the review article and topics in the JU Forum feature section are not about prostate cancer. However, although the fact is that prostate cancer is the most frequent topic reported, each submission is judged based on its individual merits. So, the content of The Journal may vary but the commitment to publishing the most clinically relevant and important new advances throughout the specialty will not change.