follow up

Last reviewed 01/2018

Follow-up after treatment for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

  • low-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
    • discharge to primary care people who have had low-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer and who have no recurrence of the bladder cancer within 12 months

  • Intermediate-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
    • cystoscopic follow-up at 3, 9 and 18 months, and once a year thereafter
    • consider discharging people who have had intermediate-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer to primary care after 5 years of disease-free follow-up

  • High-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
    • cystoscopic follow-up: every 3months for the first 2 years then every 6months for the next 2 years then once a year thereafter.

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