Cystoscopy is the reference standard for bladder cancer detection, and is also used to monitor patients with a history of the disease. The procedure is, however, invasive, and some patients find ...

[103] As it is mainly a diagnosis of exclusion, urinalyses, urodynamics, cystoscopy with bladder distension and bladder biopsy are commonly performed investigations, although their relevance and ...

Most of oncology has moved to a pathway based on biopsy and imaging followed ... or MIBC at the time of flexible cystoscopy is an important component of your bladder cancer staging pathway.

Subsequent cystoscopy revealed extrinsic mass effect compressing the left bladder neck, with suspected invasion. Bladder-neck biopsy confirmed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of prostate ...

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 ...