A simple urine test can more than halve the number of cystoscopies necessary to follow up high-risk bladder cancer patients, new research has found. Cystoscopies involve inserting a flexible probe ...

A cystoscopy is a test to look at the inside of your bladder and tube that carries urine from your bladder out of your body (urethra). It uses a thin tube called a cystoscope. The flexible cystoscope ...

Bladder cancer could soon be detected by a urine test which may halve the number of people needing invasive cystoscopies. More than 300,000 cystoscopies are performed every year in England and involve ...

The urine test checks for genetic mutations associated with the most common form of bladder cancer. Lead researcher Dr Florence Le Calvez-Kelm said: "Diagnosis of bladder cancer relies on expensive ...

Patients could soon be offered a groundbreaking urine test that can spot bladder cancer after it proved 100 per cent accurate in trials. The pioneering liquid biopsy could replace the dipstick test ...

Dr Maria Aurora Sanchini and her colleagues from Italy have found a new urine test which detects bladder cancer in people with high-risk of cancer occurrence. The test which is proved to be 90% ...

A faster, cheaper and more reliable test to detect bladder cancer has been developed, US scientists have said. The test, which provides results within an hour, checks for a protein in urine which ...

Millions of people with bladder weakness may finally be spared embarrassment thanks to new diagnostic test. One in five people have an overactive bladder, which means having to go to the toilet often ...

A range of other assessments besides the bladder pressure test work just as well in guiding treatment of female incontinence, researchers reported Saturday in The Lancet. Adobe stock/HealthDay A small ...

MONDAY, March 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A small urine leak might prompt a woman to worry she’ll need an uncomfortable and invasive bladder test to treat her incontinence. But good news -- such ...

A small urine leak might prompt a woman to worry she'll need an uncomfortable and invasive bladder test to treat her incontinence. But good news -- such bladder pressure tests probably aren't ...