He stated that he "hope(d) that the openness about our own diagnoses and management will help to dispel the taboo that still haunts this most common of cancers of men". Selected publications Kirby has published more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications, authored 68 books and founded two scientific journals: Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases and Trends in Urology and Men's Health. He has also been an associate editor of the British Journal of Urology International. In The Prostate: Small Gland Big Problem, one section was written by Clive Turner, who had undergone a radical prostatectomy himself and subsequently counselled other men considering the same option. In his textbook Men's Health, dedicated to premature death in men, particularly his father, he, his brother Mike Kirby and colleague Culley C. Carson III, attempt to address the gender gap in mortality. His book Fast facts: Prostate Cancer entered its tenth edition in 2020. Books An Atlas of Erectile Dysfunction. Taylor & Francis (2003), Your Guide to Prostate Cancer. Hodder Arnold (2005). . (With Claire Taylor) Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice. Taylor & Francis (2006), . (With Alan W. Partin, Mark Feneley and J. Kellogg Parsons) The Prostate: Small Gland Big Problem. Health Press Limited, (2006), Succeeding as a Hospital Doctor: The Experts Share Their Secrets. Health Press (2007). . (With Tony Mundy) Men's Health. London: Routledge (2009). (3rd Edition). . Co-edited with Carson C. Cully III, Michael Kirby and Adrian White ABC of Prostate Cancer. Wiley-Blackwell (2011). . (With Prokar Dasgupta) Fast Facts: Prostate Cancer. Karger (2020). 10th Ed. . (With Manish I. Patel) Articles Studies of the neurogenic bladder, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England, (A summary of a Hunterian Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 4 September 1986), Vol. 70, No. 5. (1988), pp. 285–288 "Urethro-vesical dysfunction in progressive autonomic failure with multiple system atrophy", co-authored with Clare Fowler, John Gosling and Roger Bannister, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol. 49, (1986), pp. 554–562 "The trouble with men". British Journal of Urology International, 23 February 2012 . (With Michael Kirby, Culley Carson and John M. Fitzpatrick) "Richard Turner-Warwick" British Journal of Urology International (2014). (With Christopher Chapple) "A tale of four prostates". Trends in Urology and Men's Health, March/April 2013 (With Damian Hanbury, John Anderson and Sean G. Vesey) News "Portrait of a Prostate UK supporter". 16 March 2009 "UK Prostate Charities Merge". British