The guidelines state that clinicians should offer blue light cystoscopy, if available, as an adjunct to traditional white light cystoscopy (WLC) to increase tumor detection and decrease recurrence.

Blue light cystoscopy reduces bladder cancer recurrence risk by 38% compared to white light cystoscopy, as shown in the BRAVO study. The BRAVO study used real-world data from 626 veterans, confirming ...

Cystoscopy and ureteroscopy are diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, usually performed by urologists, or doctors who specialize in diseases of the urinary tract. These procedures use endoscopes to ...

A cystoscopy is a test to look at the inside of your bladder and tube that carries urine from your bladder out of your body (urethra). It uses a thin tube called a cystoscope. The flexible cystoscope ...

Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer is labor intensive and costly to manage. Owing to long-term survival rates and life-long monitoring and treatment, it is the most expensive cancer to manage in ...

A cystoscopy is a test to check the health of your urethra and bladder. You might also hear it called a cystourethroscopy or, more simply, a bladder scope. It’s an outpatient test, which means you can ...

This paper looks at the findings of a postal survey that sought to identify patients' perception of, and satisfaction with, their nurse-led cystoscopy surveillance service. The patients had ...

Karen Kilburn, BSc (Hons), RN.Urology Nurse Practitioner, University Hospital of North Tees, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, StocktonAround 13 200 new cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed each ...

Flexible cystoscopy is an examination of the interior of the bladder with a fine, soft tube with a telescopic camera called a flexible cystoscope. It differs from traditional rigid cystoscopy, due to ...

A cystoscopy is a procedure that involves inserting a tool into the urethra and up into the bladder to examine these organs. The tool is a cystoscope — a thin, flexible instrument with a light and a ...

PROVIDENCE — Martin Israelit recently visited The Miriam Hospital. He's being monitored after being diagnosed with bladder cancer. His symptoms began about two years ago. "Those symptoms were blood in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cystoscopies for recurrent UTIs yield little clinical benefit for patients both with and without high-risk ...