When symptoms and blood tests suggest that you may have bladder cancer, doctors perform a visual inspection of the interior wall of the bladder using a cystoscope—a thin tube with a light and video camera on the end—in a procedure called a cystoscopy.
With Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview doctors use a cystoscope equipped with both white and blue light. Before the procedure Cysview (hexaminolevulinate HCl) is instilled into the bladder. Cysview makes the cancer cells glow bright fluorescent pink in blue light and stand out against the blue of the healthy tissue. This results in the improvement of the visualization and detection of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer lesions.
Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview is FDA approved for use during surgery and for follow-up cystoscopies. For the appropriate bladder cancer patients, BWFH now offers this revolutionary approach.
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