ABSTRACT
The goals of imaging patients with bladder cancer are to define the extent of tumor spread within the bladder wall and into adjacent tissues, to detect pelvic and retroperitoneal nodal metastases and, in advanced disease, to identify distant metastases. Treatment of invasive tumors includes cystectomy, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, and imaging has a role in radiotherapy treatment planning, the post-treatment evaluation of these tumors and in the detection of recurrence. In current practice, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and computed tomography (CT) have pre-eminent roles in the assessment of bladder cancer.
