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To review the epidemiology, diagnostic approaches, and clinical management options for bladder cancer, with a particular emphasis on early-stage disease.

October 29, 2002Cancer Practice

Bladder Cancer

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CPChris L. PashosOldham Council MBMarc BottemanOpen Society Foundations BLBenjamin L. LaskinChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Literature review reports primary risk factors and multimodal management strategies in bladder cancer patients, highlighting smoking cessation and stage-specific therapies.

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To review the epidemiology, diagnostic approaches, and clinical management options for bladder cancer, with a particular emphasis on early-stage disease.
Reviewed English-language literature published between 1990 and 2000.
Evaluated selected non-English abstracts published prior to 1990 covering epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment modalities.
Cigarette smoking serves as the primary environmental risk factor, with higher incidence rates noted among male, White, and elderly populations.
Routine screening remains non-standardized, leaving diagnosis reliant on cystoscopy, tumor biopsy, and urine cytology.
Transurethral resection and adjuvant intravesical therapy effectively control superficial disease, whereas invasive disease requires cystectomy or bladder-preserving trimodality therapy.

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Pashos et al. (2002) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f65bb35aa2c282ce0c356 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-5394.2002.106011.x

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Literature review reports primary risk factors and multimodal management strategies in bladder cancer patients, highlighting smoking cessation and stage-specific therapies.

Bladder Cancer

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Bladder Cancer

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