Following surgery, a catheter may be placed in the urethra to help stop bleeding and to prevent blockage of the urethra. When the bleeding has stopped, the catheter is removed. You may need to stay in the hospital 1 to 4 days.
You may feel the need to urinate frequently for a while after the surgery, but this should improve over time. You may have blood in your urine for up to 2 to 3 weeks following surgery. You may be instructed to avoid strenuous activity for about 3 weeks following TUR.
TUR can be used to diagnose, stage, and treat bladder cancer.
TUR is the most common and effective treatment for early-stage superficial bladder cancer. It may also be effective for more advanced cancer if all the cancer is removed and biopsies show that no cancer cells remain.
Transurethral resection is often a successful treatment for patients with low-risk cancers. These cancers are described as noninvasive, papillary cancers. The noninvasive characteristic keeps them from penetrating into deeper layers of tissue but does not prevent their recurrence. Up to seventy percent of patients with superficial bladder cancer have some recurrence within five years of treatment. Therefore, follow-up therapy is an important part of post transurethral resection therapy.
Follow-up therapy includes a cystoscopic evaluation three months after the initial TURBT treatment and then every six months for an additional year. If cancer reappears, follow-up cystoscopy and urinalysis is typically performed every three months for the first year and every six months for an additional three to five years.
Patients with high-risk tumors – those that are likely to become invasive – may benefit from the TURBT procedure but may need other “adjuvant” treatment. Because of the relatively high chance of progressing (thirty percent), high risk bladder cancers are often treated with transurethral resection combined with intravesical therapy. Intravesical therapy is a type of chemotherapy or immunotherapy instilled directly into the bladder.
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