{"id":743003,"date":"2026-08-19T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743003\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:58:14","slug":"the-simple-birmingham-home-test-that-could-be-amazing-for-bladder-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743003\/","title":{"rendered":"The simple Birmingham home test that could be &#8216;amazing&#8217; for bladder cancer patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently the test is for new patients with possible symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But trials are going on in the hope of rolling it out within the next two years for people like Trevor, who need monitoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If they can, just by simply taking a sample of your urine, tell you that there&#8217;s nothing to worry about, that would be amazing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new test will be available in all West Midlands hospitals by next April after it was commissioned by the West Midlands Cancer Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nonacus said it was working towards wider national access and was in discussions with a number of NHS trusts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government was determined to make use of new technology to improve cancer treatments in England, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While NHS organisations make decisions based on the needs of their local population, we&#8217;ve set up a programme to identify new technologies that have the potential to benefit both NHS patients and services,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently the test is for new patients with possible symptoms. But trials are going on in the hope&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}