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Bladder Cancer
Recent findings in bladder cancer described by researchers from University of Iowa
March 17th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "To test the hypothesis that patients with bladder cancer who had evidence of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in their transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT) and radical cystectomy (RC) specimens would have a worse prognosis and higher likelihood of clinical understaging, and to assess the effect of LVI discovered at RC on subsequent disease-related mortality, as the prognostic significance of LVI in TURBT or RC specimens of patients treated for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder is not completely established. We retrospectively reviewed the records of 163 patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder seen at our...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-17)
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