The team found that the risk of bladder cancer was 1.6 per cent in people over 60 who had invisible blood in their urine. Around 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with bladder cancer each year.

More information: Changjoon Keum et al, Diagnosis of early-stage bladder cancer via unprocessed urine samples at the point of care, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41551-024 ...

If blood is in your ureters or urethra long enough to start clotting, it’s possible it will come out in a worm-like shape. However, this is very rare. Having blood in your urine, called ...

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A total of 98 urine samples were used to build and test initial diagnostic models. Samples were taken from 24 patients with transitional (urothelial) cell carcinoma and 74 controls presenting with ...

The team found that the risk of bladder cancer was 1.6 per cent in people over 60 who had invisible blood in their urine. Around 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with bladder cancer each year.

The team found that the risk of bladder cancer was 1.6 per cent in people over 60 who had invisible blood in their urine. Around 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with bladder cancer each year.