The specialist described it as a nasty tumour after the cystoscopy. Your insights are appreciated. Dear AJ, Bladder cancers are divided in to noninvasive and invasive groups. Noninvasive cancers are superficial . They may look papillary or flat and do not invade the muscularis propria.
Invasive tumors invade into the musculais propria.
Noninvasive cancers can be resected and treated with medication instilled into the bladder. Invasive cancers may require removal of the bladder. Thus, one needs to know how much the bladder and its surrounding structures are involved with cancer. In order to stage the cancer, i.e. determine the extent of spread, CT scanning provides information about the primary tumor and the presence of lymphatic spread or liver or adrenal metastases. However, CT does have its drawbacks.