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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doctors use a combination of tests, including urinalysis, cystoscopy, urine culture, and bladder wall biopsy to diagnose interstitial cystitis. For males, they may also examine prostate secretions.

Findings from an interim analysis of data show that the addition of blue light cystoscopy to conventional white light significantly improved clinical outcomes in a group of patients with ...

June 4, 2010 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hexaminolevulinate HCl (Cysview; GE Healthcare, under license from Photocure ASA) for the detection of non-muscle-invasive ...

Endoscopy (or endoscopic imaging) is the internal visualisation of an organ using a camera encapsulated within a long, flexible tube. Endoscopy of the bladder, more commonly referred to as cystoscopy, ...

MIT researchers created a nanosensor catheter that detects bladder cancer biomarkers far earlier than current tests.