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Bladder Cancer
Reports summarize bladder cancer research from D.Y. Pushkar and co-authors
January 13th, 2009
According to a study from Russia, "This study assessed the epidemiology of bladder cancer in Russia. The available publications in Russian were analysed, as well as information from the database of N. N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center, accumulating non-uniform data from different cities and regions of Russia." "In 2006 there were 68 129 patients with bladder cancer in Russia, accounting for 2.8% of all cancer cases, with unknown proportions of males and females. In the same year 11973 new bladder cancer cases were diagnosed, with morphological confirmation in 82.3% of cases. From 1999 to 2004 the incidence of bladder carcinoma increased by 5.3% in males and by 12.5% in...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-13)
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