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In the era of highly specialised medicine, the Swiss Urological Society has set up a national register from January 2019 that will prospectively record all data relating to cystectomies. Doctors will be able to use this information to compare their activities at national level, refine surgical techniques and optimise the perioperative management of cystectomy patients. This article presents the register and provides an initial assessment of cystectomy surgery activity in Switzerland over the first four years of its set up., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.

Bladder cancer is a common cancer in the Swiss population. The heterogeneous nature of the disease requires long-term oncological monitoring, as well as metabolic and functional follow-up. Patients' quality of life must also be considered during follow-up., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.

Emerging in the last decades, sacral neuromodulation remains an underknown therapy in the general population and even in the medical field. It has proven itself in the treatment of urinary dysfunctions, such as overactive bladder syndrome and chronic non-obstructive urinary retention. Numerous applications are currently being validated and the innovations made open up encouraging prospects. This article aims to introduce the modalities of the intervention and to present the established and future medical indications of sacral neuromodulation., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.