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Bladder Cancer
Gifu University details research in bladder cancer
June 9th, 2009
According to recent research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, "The objective of our study was to evaluate whether diffusion-weighted MRI has supplementary value in the preoperative T staging of urinary bladder cancer. Nineteen consecutive patients (18 men and one woman; age range, 55-83 years; mean, 71 years) known to have or suspected of having urinary bladder cancer underwent MRI at our institution." "Urinary bladder cancer was pathologically proven in 18 patients. The pathologic stages were T1 in 14 patients, T2 in two, T3 in one, and T4 in one. Three separate MR image sets were retrospectively reviewed by two independent radiologists:...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-09)
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