An orthotopic neobladder is a type of urinary diversion procedure. It’s done after you’ve had your bladder surgically removed. An orthotopic neobladder is a new, or neo, bladder created from tissue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.