Most often, a clean catch urine sample is collected in your health care provider's office or at home.
This is done by urinating into a special cup..
Pass a small amount of urine into the toilet.
Midway through urination, fill the container to half full.
Finish voiding into the toilet.
Open the second container (with preservative) and pour an amount of urine equivalent to preservative into the container..
The test is done to detect cancer of the urinary tract.
It is often done when blood is seen in the urine.
It is also used to monitor people who have a history of urinary tract cancer.
The test may be ordered for people who are at high risk for bladder cancer..
The urine sample can't be from the first time you urinate in the morning.
The cells from your first-morning urine have been in your bladder overnight and might be too degraded to analyze.
There are two ways a urine sample can be collected for a urine cytology test.
Clean catch.
A urine cytology test can help diagnose cancers of the urinary system, including:
If a test is negative, no abnormal or cancer cells were present in the urine.
However, if a doctor still suspects a person has urinary tract cancer, they may suggest further tests to ensure the test was not a false negative.
Urine cytology tests are not sensitive to cells from slower-growing bladder cancers.
Cytology is the examination of cells from the body under a microscope.
In a urine cytology exam, a doctor looks at cells collected from a urine specimen to see what types of cells are being eliminated from your body in your urine.
The test commonly checks for infection, inflammatory disease of the urinary tract, cancer, or precancerous conditions.
Organ in humans and vertebrates that collects and stores urine from the kidneys before disposal
