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1] Bladder cancer is a common cancer; approximately 55000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States each year. Superficial bladder cancer refers to ...
1] Patients with advanced bladder cancer are often treated with radiotherapy alone. The administration of neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been reported to ...
ID The most common sign of bladder cancer is blood in the urine (hematuria). Advanced or metastatic bladder cancer refers to cancer that has spread from the bladder to distant sites in the body. The chemotherapy agent Platinol® (cisplatin) is part of the ...
ID 1] The development of combination chemotherapy almost 20 years ago in the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer has prolonged the median survival for patients with this disease. The combination of methotrexate, vinblastine, ...
Treatment of Stage II bladder cancer often involves a radical cystectomy (surgery to remove the bladder and some surrounding organs). Some previous studies have reported that survival with Stage II bladder cancer is worsened when surgery is delayed. ...
ID The types of cancer that were more common among the retinoblastoma survivors than in the general population included bone cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, melanoma, bladder cancer, and lung cancer. Among survivors of nonhereditary retinoblastoma, ...