Reasons why women are more at risk than men of developing bladder cancer if exposed to cigarette smoke; Details of research conducted at the University of Southern California; Statistics.BoschXavierEBSCO_AspBmj British Medical JournalXavier B. Bladder cancer risk higher for women smokers [news]. ...
Bladder cancer is the only common cancer for which women have worse prognosis than men as reported in the UK, continental Europe and North America (Micheli et al, 1998;Coleman et al, 1999;Ries et al, 1999). Studies based on routine registry data from the Netherlands and the US have repor...
"In my own practice, which is a referral practice, I see a lot of women with bladder cancer with very advanced disease," he said, "and I think partly this is because they have been having symptoms and blood in their urine and have been treated with antibiotics for a period of 10, 12...
Bladder cancer is often detected early because it has some obvious symptoms, like blood in urine. However, in women, this can be mistaken for post-menopausal bleeding or something else, so it may take a year or more before doctors make a proper diagnosis....
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More Women Fall Ill With Bladder Cancer Than With Cervical CancerInverness Medical
Does invasive bladder cancer differ between women and men?From July, 1976, to June, 1985, one hundred one radical cystectomies were performed for bladder cancer in our institution. Seventy-four were in men and 27 in women (2.7 to 1). In 87 percent of men the cystectomy was performed ...
"Women are less likely than men to go undergo a complete, timely evaluation [for hematuria], and this might be relevant to women's more advanced stage of bladder cancer at diagnosis," said Daniel Barocas, MD, MPH, assistant professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center...
The authors describe a population-based case-control study of cancer of the urinary bladder in New York State women aged 20–49 years (173 matched pairs) in 1975–1980. Both known and suspected risk factors for bladder cancer were examined for these rare, early-onset female cases. The odds...
Varkarakis IM, Pinggera G, Antoniou N, Constantinides K, Chrisofos M, Deliveliotis C (2007) Pathological review of internal genitalia after anterior exenteration for bladder cancer in women. Evaluating risk factors for female organ involvement. Int Urol Nephrol; 39:1015–1021 Article PubMed Goog...