Most people with bladder cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If bladder cancer has spread beyond your bladder, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat ...

Radical cystectomy involves bladder removal and urinary diversion, often using a laparoscopic robot-assisted approach for precision and access. The surgery lasts four to six hours, with a recovery ...

A cystectomy is a surgery to remove your bladder. The bladder can stretch or relax to hold about 2 cups of urine (pee). Cystectomy often treats bladder cancer. But bladder removal surgery can help ...

An experimental treatment method has shown promise in fighting a hard-to-treat form of bladder cancer known as BCG-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). BCG (Bacillus ...

Doctors consider surgery for interstitial cystitis (IC) as a last resort when other treatments, such as diet changes, medications, bladder instillations, and physical therapy, have failed to bring ...

Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy proceed directly to radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph-node dissection. Perioperative therapy may ...

Signatera detects molecular residual disease in bladder cancer by identifying tumor DNA fragments in the bloodstream, even when not visible on scans. The IMvigor010 trial showed that Signatera-guided ...