Bladder cancer · Guide
Bladder cancer explorer: guide
Show the bladder within the body, enter the tumour’s place, size and T stage from the report, explain the treatment and share a matching picture sheet.
For patients and families
Look at the picture together
The picture opens with the whole body. Choose Pelvis to see the bladder with the ureters coming down from the kidneys, then Bladder to move close. Drag to turn it and scroll or pinch to zoom.
Show what your team has found
Your clinician can enter where in the bladder the tumour is, its size and how deep it has grown (the T stage). The slice in the corner shows the layers of the bladder wall and how far the tumour reaches. The shape is schematic, not a copy of your scan or camera test.
Take it home
Ask for a picture sheet with the views you discussed, your team’s explanation, what the bladder does, where to find help and the words used. A QR code reopens the same model settings on your phone. Names, notes and contact details are never included in that code or saved online.
For clinicians
Start with orientation
The explorer adds the bladder (wall and urothelium), ureters, urethra and either the prostate and seminal vesicles or the uterus and vagina to the shared pelvis, rectum, sacrum and body from the rectal explorer. Adding a tumour opens a cut-away.
Set up from the report
| Control | What to set |
|---|---|
| Body shown | Male or female pelvis, which changes the neighbouring organs and what a cystectomy removes. |
| Where in the bladder | Dome, anterior, posterior, left or right lateral wall, trigone or bladder neck. |
| Longest diameter | 3–100 mm. |
| T stage | Ta, Tis, T1, T2, T3 or T4 as written by the team; sets how far the drawn tumour reaches through the wall. Grade, CIS extent and nodal stage are not modelled. |
| More than one tumour | Adds smaller illustrative tumours. |
Explain a selected plan
TURBT shows the area resected; intravesical BCG or chemotherapy and radiotherapy show the area treated. Radical cystectomy colours the bladder (and prostate and seminal vesicles, or uterus) teal; After surgery shows an ileal conduit urostomy. Neobladder, lymph node dissection and systemic treatment are not modelled.
Limits
- Tumour shapes and positions are schematic; multiple tumours are illustrative only.
- Upper tract, nodal and distant disease are not shown.
Sources and review
Practising urologist review is still needed for clinical teaching use. Please send corrections through feedback.