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 ...

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is cancer that’s only in the inner lining of your bladder. It hasn’t grown into the muscle wall. Your doctor may also call it superficial bladder cancer, urothelial ...

Non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) continue to pose significant clinical and health-economic challenges in ...

Although bladder cancer ranks as the sixth most common cancer in the United States, with approximately 85,000 new cases diagnosed each year, it continues to receive limited awareness, advocacy, and ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco have found a way to identify and possibly treat a mysterious type of bladder cancer that affects up to 1 in 4 cases. First, they found a marker on the surface of the ...

Perioperative management for muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) includes neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy (NAC) followed by radical cystectomy and risk-adapted adjuvant immunotherapy. More ...

As a potential biomarker of treatment response, ctDNA and utDNA analyses were performed before systemic therapy, at restaging, and for responders at the beginning of adjuvant nivolumab. ctDNA was ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) or its treatments may lead to urinary symptoms. Studies suggest a link between overactive bladder symptoms and a common MG medication called pyridostigmine. Urinary symptoms in ...

Bladder health among older adults is an emerging priority within geriatric medicine and public health, yet it is frequently overshadowed by persistent ...

Feeling the urge to urinate again and again, but passing very little each time can be uncomfortable, confusing, and easy to ...