Bladder cancer explorer

A 3D picture to support a conversation with the clinical team. It does not diagnose or recommend treatment.

Guide

For the clinical team

Set up from the cystoscopy, scan or pathology report

Start with normal anatomy. Use the cystoscopy, CT, MRI or pathology report to show where a bladder tumour is, how big it is and how deep it has grown, then show the treatment your team has discussed. Initial tumour settings are examples: replace them with the report details.

Tumour

Tumour on the model

Changing a tumour setting below also adds it.

Body shown

Shows the organs next to the bladder.

Where in the bladder

Longest diameter mm

Use the size from cystoscopy, scan or pathology, as written in the report.

How deep it has grown (T stage in the report)Enter the T stage as written by the team. The model draws it; it does not work out the stage.

The report describes more than one tumourAdds smaller example tumours; their places are illustrative.

Place, size and T stage come from the report. The bladder’s shape and the tumour’s shape are schematic. Lymph nodes and spread beyond the pelvis are not shown.

Views and layers

Use Whole body, Pelvis and Bladder to move closer in the same scene. Adding a tumour opens a cut-away through the bladder. Show / hide controls the body outline, nearby organs, rectum and pelvic floor, sacrum, the cut-away, measurements and labels.

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Drag to turn · scroll or pinch to zoom

Slice through the wall

A schematic cross-section of the bladder wall at the tumour, showing the lining, the muscle and the fat outside, and how far the tumour has grown. This is not the patient’s scan.

In plain words

Key measurements

Tumour values come from the report. The bladder’s shape and size are an average adult’s; the tumour’s shape is simplified.

Treatment options

Show the treatment your team has discussed

Choose a picture of the planned treatment. The model does not select a treatment.

Show

A new bladder made from bowel, and drug treatments, are not shown. Your team can explain them.

Share with the patient

Make a picture sheet to send

Set up each view you want, then press Snapshot above the model. You can add up to 4. If you add none, the current view is used.

Prepared for (optional)

Urology nurse or key worker (optional)

Note for the patient (optional)

Include the plain-words summary Include key measurements Include the operation shown Add a page about the body part, life after treatment, support and the words used Add a page explaining the labels in plain English Add a QR code that reopens this picture (holds the model settings only, never the name or notes)

Names and notes typed here never leave this device and are forgotten when you close the page. Check the sheet before sending, and use your organisation's approved secure route.

For the patient and family

Help and support

Words used in clinic and trusted information from the NHS and bladder cancer charities.

Open help and support

This is a simplified teaching model of bladder tumours. It does not interpret cystoscopy or scans, diagnose, stage cancer or predict treatment effects. Lymph nodes, the upper urinary tract and spread beyond the pelvis are not shown. Important information · Nothing is saved.