Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

521.876 - 549.193 Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And it accumulates in these photoactive porphyrins. And it is these photoactive porphyrins which preferentially accumulate in malignant cells. And then when we use blue light illumination, it's these photoactive porphyrins that then, okay, which are accumulated in the cancerous cells, fluoresce bright pink, okay, under that blue light illumination. And so you're able to visually see that.