• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60491-8
Corpus ID: 40417997

Bladder cancer

@article{Kaufman2009BladderC,
  title={Bladder cancer},
  author={D. Kaufman and W. Shipley and A. Feldman},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2009},
  volume={374},
  pages={239-249}
}

D. Kaufman, W. Shipley, A. Feldman

Published 2009

Medicine

The Lancet

Bladder cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with 70% of patients presenting with superficial tumours, which tend to recur but are generally not life threatening, and 30% presenting as muscle-invasive disease associated with a high risk of death from distant metastases. The main presenting symptom of all bladder cancers is painless haematuria, and the diagnosis is established by urinary cytology and transurethral tumour resection. Intravesical treatment is used for carcinoma in situ and other… CONTINUE READING

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