FIRBladd - Use of Infrared Spectroscopy in the Diagnosis of Bladder Tumors

Bladder Cancer is the ninth cause of cancer worldwide, and it is still developing, due to growing risk factors such as Tobacco consumption. It has a high level of recurrence, which imposes regular screening and permanent treatment to the patient that has developed a bladder tumor.

Bladder cancer main symptom is blood in the urine, which has low specificity and sensibility. Other screening methods include cytology and image through cystoscopy. Conclusive diagnostic is performed by biopsy of the suspicious lesions. The latter methods are highly invasive.

Hence, it is necessary to develop non invasive technique for bladder cancer screening and follow up, as there is no reliable prognostic factor available. The investigators expect to improve the detection level in the urine by measuring and analyzing its absorption spectrum in the mid infrared, spectrum which provides a comprehensive image of metabolic situation.

Hence, the main objective of the study is to assess infrared spectroscopy ability to discriminate urine of a patient affected by bladder cancer from urine of reference patient. Success will be evaluated upon the discrimination level of cancer affected patient urine infrared spectrum vs. standard patient ones.

Secondary objective will be to assess the capability to detect different affection levels and tumors grade through the infrared spectrum analysis, as well as the predictive potential of the technique. The investigators may also assess the test intrinsic sensibility and specificity.