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 ...

A cystoscopy is a procedure that involves inserting a tool into the urethra and up into the bladder to examine these organs. The tool is a cystoscope — a thin, flexible instrument with a light and a ...

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 ...