"The National Cancer Data Base Report on Bladder Carcinoma."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Cancer, "Background: Previous Commission on Cancer Data from the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) have examined time trends in stage of disease, treatment patterns, and survival for selected cancers. The most current (1993) data relating to patients with bladder carcinoma are described here. Methods: Five calls for data have 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, from hospital cancer registries across the U.S. Data were received on 18,053 bladder carcinoma cases in 1988 and 22,606 cases in 1993. Results: ...

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