‘Significant breakthrough’: NHS hospitals adopt faster, more accurate bladder cancer test

Five hospitals in England and Wales have switched to test taken at home, rather than invasive hospital procedure

NHS hospitals are using a new way of diagnosing bladder cancer that is faster, more accurate and more convenient for patients than the existing test.

Doctors said the Galeas bladder test is a major breakthrough because it involves a urine test taken at home rather than an invasive procedure done at hospital which is uncomfortable for patients.
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