While cystectomy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy is standard of care for the treatment of muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma, patients often struggle with lasting impairments to health related ...
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Cheryl Lee, MD: Welcome to Medscape InDiscussion. I'm Dr Cheryl Lee. Today we'll be discussing non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. How should we approach ...
A 71-year-old man presented to hospital in November 2014 upon referral after reporting pain and evidence of blood on urination. Imaging and cystoscopy assessments identified a vegetative lesion of the ...
Bladder cancer affects over 52,000 men and women in the United States on an annual basis, and more than 12,000 people die each year from this disease. It is the fourth most common cancer in men in ...
Neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy plus chemoradiotherapy offers a safe, effective bladder-sparing approach with promising long-term outcomes in nonmetastatic MIBC. Median disease-free survival ...
Radical cystectomy, or complete bladder removal, remains the standard and most effective surgery for muscle‑invasive bladder cancer because it offers the strongest chance of cure when the disease has ...
Photodynamic diagnosis cystoscopy demonstrates greater sensitivity in the detection of BCG-refractor bladder tumors compared with standard white light cystoscopy. Compared with standard white light ...
Fluorescent Cystoscopy vs White Light in Bladder CA Surgery Patients with bladder cancer resected with fluorescence cystoscopy had a longer recurrence-free survival than those resected with ...