Blue light guidance during bladder tumor removal for first-time patients
Part of Cancer, Kidney & urinary, Women’s health & pregnancy clinical trials.
This study tests whether using a special blue light (photodynamic diagnosis) during bladder surgery helps remove all the cancer more completely. It's for people having their first surgery for a medium-sized bladder tumor.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You must be 18 years old or older.
- You have a suspected first-time bladder cancer that is larger than 1.5 cm (about the size of a grape).
- You are scheduled for surgery to remove the tumor through the urethra (called TURB).
- You have not had bladder cancer that came back before (recurrent non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer).
- Your cancer has not spread to other parts of the body and is not suspected to have grown deep into the bladder muscle.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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