When symptoms and blood tests suggest bladder cancer, the fourth most common cancer in men according to the American Cancer Society, experts will inspect the inside of the bladder using a long, thin tube with a video camera on the end called a cystoscope. Recent technology advances with this examination – called a cystoscopy – have enabled physicians to have a more in-depth and accurate look. Cystoscopies use a traditional white light to examine the bladder lining. But a handful of facilities in the tri-state region including Rutgers Cancer Institute and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, use enhanced blue light technology with an imaging solution that better highlights cancerous tumors under the blue light making them more visible and defined. Saum Ghodoussipour, MD, urologic oncologist and director of the Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute and assistant professor of surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, shares more. Read More
Saum Ghodoussipour, MD, urologic oncologist and director of the Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute and assistant professor of surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School