Multiple therapeutic options are available for the management of patients with upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Radical nephroureterectomy with an ipsilateral bladder cuff is 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 ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has offered new clues as to why immunotherapy works well for some bladder cancer patients but ...

Patients with early-stage bladder cancer are often able to maintain their usual routines. Some may experience urinary ...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States and the 10th leading cause of cancer deaths. Many treatments can be used for bladder cancer, and the kind of ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

When you learn you have bladder cancer, it’s only natural to ask: "Can I survive this, for how long, and can I expect to be cured?" You may have searched online for survival rate information. These ...

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 ...

The extent of the bladder cancer — how far it has spread — matters. Your care team needs to know if your cancer sits on or in the first lining of your bladder (non-muscle invasive), if it goes into ...

Nat Clin Pract Urol. 2007;4(8):432-443. JD Raman is a Chief Resident in Urology and DS Scherr is an Assistant Professor of Urology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Cornell Medical Center, ...