Early investigation — typically a urine test, ultrasound or CT scan, and a cystoscopy — allows for timely treatment ranging from endoscopic removal to intravesical therapy. Smoking accounts ...

Uncomplicated urinary tract infections remain a common and costly condition in the United States, with effective treatment complicated by recurrence and antibiotic resistance. In a recent AJMC ...

Fluorescence-guided cystoscopy, using 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or its hexyl ester, hexaminolevulinate 5-ALA (Hexvix ® [HAL], Photocure, Oslo, Norway), improves the detection of bladder tumors ...

If you have pain while peeing or possibly kidney stones, your doctor may want you to have a ureteroscopy. It’s a procedure to find — and, in some cases, fix — problems in your urinary tract ...

The latest technology for diagnosing and monitoring bladder cancer is now available at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, the first hospital in the San Fernando Valley to acquire blue light ...

The national Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) Programme is now in its third year and has approved 170 CDC sites across England. As at August 2024, 165 sites are operational in a variety of settings ...

Although anyone with a prostate can get prostate cancer, certain factors make it more likely, such as: age, as this cancer is rare under the age of 40 family history specific genes, such as the ...

Surveillance remains critical during and after maintenance therapy. Patients are generally monitored with cystoscopy and urine cytology every 3 to 6 months for the first 2 years, then at increasing ...

3 Department of Medical Genetics Haartman Institute Biomedicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 4 Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 5 ...

(UroToday.com) The 2025 AUA annual meeting featured a bladder cancer session and a presentation by Dr. Alireza Ghoreifi discussing results from a prospective registry assessing upstaging and risk ...