Bladder Cancer

Study results from Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health provide new insights into bladder cancer

Published in Blood Weekly, December 20th, 2007

Fresh data on bladder cancer are presented in the report 'Mediastinal mass mimicking a tumor in a patient with bladder cancer after bacillus Calmette-Guerin treatment.' "We describe the case of a 78-year-old male with bladder cancer who developed a mediastinal mass after intravesical immunotherapy with live Mycobacterium bovis BCG," scientists in the United States report.

"The clinical diagnosis was mediastinal tumor suggestive for lymphoma. However, cultures of the biopsy specimens grew an acid-fast organism, which was identified as M. bovis BCG," wrote A. Somoskovi and colleagues, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health.

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