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Affiliations

• ¹ Trends in Urology and Men's Health; president elect, British Society of Sexual Medicine.
• ² Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, University of Manchester, Manchester.
• ³ Rush Green Medical Centre, Romford.
• ⁴ Cobham Health Centre, Cobham; co-medical director, Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance.
• ⁵ Lister Hospital, Stevenage; professor and chair of robotic surgery, University of Hertfordshire.
• ⁶ Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool.
• ⁷ Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool.
• ⁸ Macmillan urology consultant radiographer, Western Health and Social Care Trust, Londonderry.
• ⁹ SABR and IGRT specialist therapy radiographer, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol.
• ¹⁰ Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro.
• ¹¹ University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London.
• ¹² The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Cancer Research, London.
• ¹³ University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol.
• ¹⁴ Prostate Cancer UK.