Associate Professor Celi Varol

Robotic Prostate & Bladder Cancer Surgery
Laser & Minimally Invasive Urologist

A/Prof Celi Varol is a Urological Oncologist with specialised interest in minimally invasive cancer therapy. He graduated from University of Adelaide Medical School and Specialised in Urology. He undertook 2 further years of sub-specialised training in Urological Oncology in Switzerland and Germany before returning back to Sydney. His clinical practice consists of robotic and minimally invasive bladder and prostate cancer therapy. He has been performing laser surgery for prostate disease since 2003 in Australia and undertook the first minimally invasive Focal LASER therapy trial in the Southern Hemisphere for Prostate Cancer. Even before the success of this trial he was in the development of PROFOCAL-RX as treatment platform. His ambition is to provide a global yet simple platform to effectively treat prostate cancer minimally invasively. PROFOCAL-RX is being designed to treat prostate lesions and at the same time minimising the major side effects that occur with surgery or radiotherapy.

Practice Locations:
Nepean Public & Private Hospital
Macquarie University Hospital

Presentations – Peer Review

American Urological Association – Chicago 2003
Journal of Urology 2003 Suppl

Urethral tumour recurrence following orthotopic bladder substitution: prevention and detection
Urethral tumour recurrence following orthotopic bladder substitution : treatment with transurethral BCG
Melbourne Scientific Meeting 2005 – Invited Speaker

Predictors of Outcome in Lymph Node Positive Bladder TCC
Studer orthotopic ileal low pressure bladder substitute
Urethral tumour recurrence following orthotopic bladder substitution : detection and treatment
Sydney Scientfic Meeting July 2010 – Invited Speaker

Video presentation – Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
Laparoscopic radical Cystectomy and Neobladder reconstruction
“The Final Frontier in Urological Laparoscopy”
NSW Section Meeting – Invited Speaker

Debate “ We should all be doing TUR-P and forget the rest”

Coretherm Microwave therapy is the new Gold Standard for BPH
Presentation Annual Scientific Meetings – Published Abstracts

Abstracts of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 57st Annual Scientific Meeting ANZ J of Surgery Suppl. 2004

Holmium Laser Enucleation for BPH
C Varol, Studer UE, et al

Outcome in Lymph Node Positive Bladder TCC
C Varol, Studer UE, et al
Special Issue: Abstracts of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, Hong Kong, China, 24–28 February 2008 Volume 101 Issue, Pages 1 – 49 February 2008

Laparoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy: an approach in evolution M.P. YUHICO and C. VAROL

Renovascular clamping technique intransperitoneal laparoscopic partial nephrectomy C. VAROL, N. PHATTANACHINDAKUN and M.P. YUHICO

Laparoscopic radical cystectomy – technique and tricks C. VAROL, R. FERGUSON and B. CANAGASINGHAM

A randomized controlled study using two methods of analgesia during transrectal ultra-sound guided biopsy of the prostate A. HUTTON and C. VAROL
Abstracts of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting, 8–12 March 2009, Gold Coast, Australia BJU International Volume 103 Issue s1, Pages 1-48

Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate: Learning the operation as a trainee at Nepean Hospital
B Kwok, C Varol, R Ko, B Canagasingham

A right iliac fossa incision for Urinary Diversion following Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy
VAROL, R. KO, B. CANAGASINGHAM,
FERGUSON and A. VAROL

Corethermt transurethral microwave therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia: Results at 1 year follow up R. FERGUSON, C. VAROL, B. CANAGASINGHAM, R. KO and M. YUHICO

A novel technique for early return of continence following laparoscopic radical prostatectomy – the down under stitch
C. VAROL, M. YUHICO, R. KO, B. CANAGASINGHAM and R. FERGUSON