Bladder

—Flesher NE, Herr HW, Stewart AK, Murphy GP, Mettlin CJ, Menck HR. The National Cancer Data Base report on bladder carcinoma. Cancer 1996; 78:1505-1513. (!)

Five Calls for Data yielded a total of 3,700,000 cases for the years 1985 through 1993, including 447,679 cases for 1988 and 608,593 cases for 1993. Data were received on 18,053 bladder carcinoma cases in 1988 and 22,606 cases in 1993. Interesting trends are 1) younger patients (49 years of age and younger) present with earlier stages of disease than do older patients; 2) women are slightly more likely to be diagnosed with later stages (II, III, and IV) of bladder carcinoma than men; 3) African-Americans are less likely to be diagnosed with Stage 0 or Stage I disease than either Hispanic or non-Hispanic whites; and 4) National Cancer Institute designated centers treat more patients with advanced disease than do other types of hospitals.

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