Most people with bladder cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If bladder cancer has spread beyond your bladder, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat ...

A person may experience some pain and discomfort after bladder sling surgery. However, the pain should ease in a few days or weeks. People can consult a doctor if their pain is severe or worsens.

If you're female and you lose bladder control upon exertion -- sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting something heavy -- you may have stress urinary incontinence. As many women know, the condition is ...

Graphical comparison of bladder augmentation surgery using either ileum (top) or a cell-seeded, biodegradable scaffold (bottom). MSCs and HSPCs represent different types of stem cells found in the ...

Nearly 200,000 Americans are living with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), a severe and fast-growing type of bladder cancer that penetrates the thick muscle layer of the bladder wall. After ...

Deion Sanders, the University of Colorado’s head football coach, talked about his treatment for an aggressive form of bladder cancer for the first time publicly at a news conference Monday. Sporting a ...

The procedure could be life-changing for some people with debilitating conditions. Oscar Larrainzar, the recipient of the first-ever bladder transplant, waited to be discharged from the Ronald Reagan ...

Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world's first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4, ...

At the morning plenary session on the final day of the 2026 American Urological Association Annual Meeting, Nima Nassiri presented the groundbreaking world’s first human bladder transplantation, ...

For years, Susan Johnstone, 53, lived with an embarrassing problem that threatened to take away the activity she loved most: running. She tried everything—even surgery—to keep her bladder leaks at bay ...

A person may need surgery for bladder cancer to remove the tumor. A person may also need preoperative or postoperative treatments. Bladder cancer occurs when cells of the bladder start to grow out of ...