Future of European urology.

Abstract

To provide the highest medical service and to maintain the most advanced research work across national boundaries, we have developed many organizations, including the European Association of Urology (EAU), the European Board of Urology (EBU), and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). They also have functioned to provide equal health service for all European people. In the future, superspecialization and the multidisciplinary approach are inevitable. Major changes will occur, such as prevention of stone diseases, reconstructive urology, and immune and gene therapy in oncology. Specialists will assume major roles in the urologic clinic. In those circumstances, Europe will continue to play an important role because urologists are very much involved in future strategic developments on national and Pan-European levels.