Surgery for advanced bladder cancer includes transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT) to remove tumors and cystectomy to remove all or part of the bladder, with the choice depending on the ...
USA: A new systematic review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews suggests that blue light-enhanced ...
A TURBT allows examination beyond the bladder. A transurethral resection of bladder tumor allows examination and determination of histology, depth of invasion, and involvement beyond the bladder. I ...
Bladder cancer (BC) screening in un-affected Caucasian ancestry family members of patients who tested positive for germline homologous recombination repair (gHRR) and mismatch repair (gMMR) variants.
En bloc resection is a viable alternative to conventional TURBT, even possibly for large NMIBC and regardless of tumor location. En bloc resection of bladder tumor outperforms transurethral resection ...
In a trial of low-grade Ta bladder cancer, photocoagulation was noninferior to standard TURBT in maintaining recurrence-free survival. Office-based laser photocoagulation provides 12-month ...
Bladder cancer is a complex disease that poses high risks of morbidity and mortality, especially when not treated optimally. Hematuria is the most common presenting symptom in patients with bladder ...
Bladder cancer is mainly urothelial carcinoma, with non-muscle-invasive and muscle-invasive types, and smoking as a key risk factor. Diagnosis involves cystoscopy, biopsy, urine cytology, and imaging ...
Using multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) before surgery reduced time to correct treatment by 45 days for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer. The imaging procedure was successful for over 92% of ...
Fulguration is an electrosurgery. It uses heat from an electrical current to destroy atypical tissue areas. Healthcare professionals often use it to treat early stage bladder cancer, but they can use ...