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 ...

Urothelial carcinoma is the most common bladder cancer, with stage 1 indicating early-stage disease confined to the bladder lining. Diagnosis involves urinalysis, cystoscopy, TURBT, and imaging to ...

In a trial, ERAS for ambulatory TURBT showed promise for improving early recovery compared with usual care. In a trial, quality of recovery was significantly better for patients receiving an enhanced ...

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 ...

More than 250,000 people undergo a transurethral procedure each year in the U.S., and up to 10% of those people will experience a postoperative infection. Now, researchers from the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 250,000 people undergo a transurethral procedure each year in the U.S., and up to 10% of those people will experience a postoperative infection. But researchers have discovered an indicator ...