Controveries in Urologic Cancer

Based on recent developments with blue light cystoscopy, the use of white light cystoscopy alone is now considered suboptimal as a diagnostic tool.

More evidence is needed before blue light cystoscopy becomes the standard of care for diagnosis and treatment and renders white light cystoscopy obsolete.

Biopsy decreases overall uncertainty, is safe, fairly accurate, relatively inexpensive, and improves shared decision-making with patients.

Renal mass biopsy provides actionable information, but only under specific circumstances-yet it is an increasingly necessary part of the nuanced patient discussion.