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Bladder Cancer
New bladder cancer data have been reported by scientists at Ankara University, Medical Department
March 17th, 2009
According to a study from Ankara, Turkey, "To evaluate the association of patient age with pathological and long-term oncological outcomes after radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder carcinoma, as this disease, like many others, increases in incidence with age. We retrospectively reviewed 241 consecutive patients with invasive bladder cancer who had RC between 1990 and 2007." "The age at RC was analysed both as a continuous and categorical (<= 50 years, 38 patients; 51-69, 172; or >= 70, 31) variable. Survival was also analysed. Increasing age, analysed as a continuous and categorical variable, was associated with advanced pathological stage (P = 0.009 and 0.006,...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-17)
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