USA: A new systematic review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews suggests that blue light-enhanced ...
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 ...
Physical and Emotional Health Effects and Social Consequences After Participation in a Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Dietary Trial for More Than 5 Years For high-risk T1 bladder cancer, the most ...
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 ...
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 ...
Despite transurethral resection (TUR) and intravesical instillation of the most effective agents, a proportion of patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder suffer a recurrence of their ...
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 ...
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 ...
Surgery hasn’t always been an option for metastatic bladder cancer (or bladder cancer that’s spread from its original site). But according to limited research, surgical treatments may now help some ...
There are different stages of bladder cancer depending on how the tumor has spread. The staging of bladder cancer can help a medical professional map out the best treatment plan and improve a person’s ...
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 ...