Dr. Janet Kukreja explains one urinary diversion option available to patients undergoing bladder removal. For patients with bladder cancer undergoing radical cystectomy, or the surgical removal of the ...

Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders announced on Monday that he beat bladder cancer after almost losing his life in May. While Coach Prime was able to overcome death, he now faces a new ...

Most patients who undergo radical cystectomy for invasive bladder cancer receive orthotopic neobladder reconstruction, but little is known about the incidence and etiology of emptying failure in ...

Invasive bladder cancer is usually treated with radical cystectomy followed by urinary diversion. Most male patients undergo continent reconstruction using an ileal neobladder, which is presumed to ...

DUARTE, Calif. (KABC) -- Bladder cancer affects 75,000 Americans every year. The most-telling symptom is usually blood in the urine. Even large tumors are curable, but the treatment can mean a drastic ...

University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders announced he got a new bladder this week as part of his cancer treatment. Here's how doctors... How surgeons build a new bladder for cancer patients ...

When Lodi resident Joe Clausi woke up from surgery, the first thing he did was take a deep breath, and peer under the covers. He was happily surprised. Though there were no guarantees, his surgeon was ...

Urinary diversion surgery creates a new way for urine to exit your body after bladder removal. There are three different surgical options for urinary diversion. Two of them give you control over when ...

Bladder cancer affects 75,000 people in this country every year, but treating it can bring drastic change to patients. So now, Bay Area surgeons are offering a new option -- the neobladder procedure.

Radical cystectomy is one of the most complex operations in urology, in which orthotopic ileal neobladder construction is an important part. With the development of laparoscopic instruments and ...

At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder. The University of Colorado coach recently underwent reconstructive surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer ...