The bladder and how it works, the types of bladder cancer and what raises the risk, and how it's screened for, treated and studied.
12 HealthJournals
May is Bladder Cancer Awareness Month because, unlike lung, breast, and colon cancer, it is a lesser-known cancer. Let’s shine a light on bladder cancer to raise awareness and educate and support those affected by this disease.
The urinary bladder is a temporary storage reservoir for urine. It is located in the pelvic cavity, posterior to the symphysis pubis, and below the parietal peritoneum. The size and shape of the urinary bladder varies. Learn more.
Bladder cancer is cancer that forms in tissues of the bladder (the organ that stores urine). People with a family history of bladder cancer or who are older, white, or male have a higher risk. Learn how bladder cancer starts and about the most common type, urothelial carcinoma.
Bladder cancer is more common with age, in men and in white people, and it can run in families. Part of that family risk comes from inherited variants in bladder cancer risk genes, which can raise a person's chance of developing the disease.
Bladder cancer research covers the work under way to better prevent, detect and treat bladder cancer. It follows what recent studies have found about the disease and how researchers are turning those findings into new tests and treatments.
Clinician summaries of bladder cancer, written for health professionals. One reviews the evidence on bladder cancer screening, with its possible benefits and harms; the other covers bladder cancer treatment, from staging to the options at each stage.
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