Pre-procedure urinalysis can be skipped before certain office-based urology procedures, such as prostate biopsy and cystoscopy, according to the results of a randomized trial. Some centers perform the ...

The hope that urine-based biomarkers might be a noninvasive alternative to cystoscopy for diagnosis of bladder cancer was dealt a setback by a new systematic review and meta-analysis that found that ...

While cystoscopy remains the standard method of detecting bladder cancer, CT urography (CTU) is an attractive noninvasive alternative; however, no consensus has been reached regarding its role in ...