Renal & Urology News features the updated AUA/SUO Guidelines for Bladder Cancer including interviews with clinical experts
Published: 3 July 2016
New recommendations promise to enable clinicians to provide more individualized patient care.
The updated guidelines for the diagnosis and management of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) make 38 recommendations regarding diagnosis, risk stratification, surgical intervention, and intravesical therapy.
“Urologists could do a better job diagnosing and staging of tumors, which is important for charting the management course”, Dr. Steinberg said. “Enhanced detection with cystoscopy, notably blue light cystoscopy — which is mentioned for the first time in the bladder cancer guidelines — is a key element in the patient workup”, he said.
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