EXPERTS EXPLAIN ROLE OF GUIDELINES in the management of intermediate-risk NMIBC.

CONSENSUS (Social sciences); ATTITUDES of medical personnel; MEDICAL personnel; MEDICAL protocols; NON-muscle invasive bladder cancer; RISK assessment; UROLOGISTS; EXPERTISE; HEALTH care teams; DECISION making in clinical medicine; MEDICAL societies; MEDICAL needs assessment; MEDICAL research; DISEASE risk factors

An interview with Doctors Ashish M. Kamat, Roger Li, and Wei Shen Tan about the role of guidelines in the management of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), is presented. They discuss the updated consensus definition and management recommendations from the International Bladder Cancer Group (IBCG), how the guidelines differ when it comes to intermediate-risk NMIBC, and how these guidelines can be refined and simplified for the clinician in a user-friendly fashion.