Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor, or TURBT, is a procedure that allows your surgeon to biopsy or remove a tumor from the inside of your bladder while leaving the bladder intact. Because the ...
Most people with bladder cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If bladder cancer has spread beyond your bladder, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat ...
MILAN — Photodynamic diagnosis-guided transurethral resection of bladder tumors did not reduce recurrence rates of non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in the longer term compared with standard ...
“Identifying individuals at high risk for UTIs allows for more targeted treatment and care strategies, thereby enhancing patient safety.” — Yunlan Jiang, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese ...
Intravesical chemotherapy involves a healthcare professional injecting chemotherapy medication directly into the bladder to treat cancerous tumors. “Intravesical” means “within the bladder.” ...
Word is spreading about the importance of enhanced detection in the management of bladder cancer. In a widely aired segment of “Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid,” patients shared their experiences ...
Bisphosphonate therapy in patients under androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Background: Since transurethral resection of bladder tumor in one ...
Long-term outcomes of pembrolizumab (pembro) in combination with gemcitabine (gem) and concurrent hypofractionated radiation therapy (RT) as bladder sparing treatment for muscle-invasive urothelial ...
Providing surgeons feedback and education on their performance significantly improved the quality of bladder cancer operations, finds a new clinical trial led by researchers at UCL, UCLH and the ...
Can growing blood vessels within a lab-engineered graft improve bladder reconstruction for children? For more than two ...
A new national clinical trial led by Dartmouth Cancer Center clinical researcher and urologist Florian R. Schroeck, MD, will determine whether a less intensive follow-up plan for bladder cancer ...