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

Research / Publications

The Relationship of the Umbilicus to the retroperitoneal Great Vessels. Varol C, Hughes T.M.D.
ANZ J of Surgery 68 (Suppl) 1998:A90

Referral patterns of the Royal Flying Doctor Service to a remote area rural surgical service
Cosman, PH; J Friendship; C Varol; and R Hanney
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 68(Supp):A130-1

Audiovisual recording as a quality improvement tool in trauma resuscitation
Cosman, PH; J Friendship; and C Varol
Paper delivered at Trauma ‘98 EMST Conference. Gold Coast, August 1998

Development and Characterisation of a Xenograft Model of Human Testicular Cancer
Presentation at the 25th Congress of the Société Internationale d’ Urologie,
Singapore 2000.
Varol C, Nicols D.
Int Suppl 2000. BJU

Treatment of urethral recurrence following radical cystectomy and ileal bladder substitution
Journal of Urology, J Urol. 2004 Sep;172(3):937-42. Varol C, Burkhard F, Thalmann G and Studer UE

Managing patients after an ileal orthotopic bladder substitution
Varol C, Studer UE.
BJU Int. 2004 Feb;93(3):266-70

Nerve sparing endoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy
Video – Surgical procedure
Narrator and Co surgeon
Stolzenburg J-U and Varol C

Orthotopic ileal neobladder. – surgical atlas
Studer UE, Varol C, Danuser H.
BJU Int. 2004 Jan;93(1):183-93. Review

Paratesticular rhabdomyoma
Cooper CL, Sindler P, Varol C, McCarthy SW, Karim RZ, Scolyer RA.
Pathology. 2007 Jun; 39(3):367-9

Priapism and penile gangrene due to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Kwok B, Varol C.
Urology. 2010 Jan;75(1):71-2