With intravesical therapy, the doctor puts a liquid drug right into your bladder rather than giving it by mouth or putting it into your blood. The drug is given through a tube (urinary catheter) that's been put …

During intravesical therapy, your healthcare provider will inject (put) medication into your bladder through a catheter (thin, flexible tube) in your urethra. The medicine makes the bladder’s inner lining …

Dec 5, 2024 · Intravesical therapy is a treatment that puts medicine directly into the bladder. This way, the medicine goes straight to the cancer cells without affecting the rest of the body.

Sep 24, 2023 · Intravesical chemotherapy involves a healthcare professional injecting chemotherapy medication directly into the bladder to treat cancerous tumors. “Intravesical” means “within the bladder.”

Jul 15, 2025 · Intravesical chemotherapy is a key treatment for bladder cancer, reducing recurrence and progression in NMIBC with localized drug delivery and minimal toxicity.

Jun 10, 2024 · Intravesical (also called intravesicular) therapy is when medication is given into the bladder. The bladder (vesical) is between your pelvis and hips and stores your urine.

Intravesical cancer treatment is the delivery of the anti-cancer medicine into the bladder. This type of treatment is used for cancer that is confined to a small area on the surface of the bladder.

Because intravesical medications are placed in the bladder, they don’t circulate throughout the body in the same way that chemotherapy drugs do when they are administered via other methods. This …

Chemotherapy uses anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. Intravesical chemotherapy is when the treatment is given directly into the bladder.

Intravesical therapy has a well-established role in the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. See Diagnosis and Treatment of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: AUA/SUO Joint Guideline …