Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2009 Bladder cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with 70% of patients presenting with superficial tumours, which tend to recur but are generally not life threatening, and 30% presenting as muscle-invasive disease associated with a high risk of death from distant metastases.
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F1000Research, 2015 Overactive bladder syndrome is highly prevalent, and increasingly so with aging. It is characterized by the presence of urinary urgency, and can be associated with incontinence, increased voiding frequency, and nocturia. Assessment needs to exclude serious medical disorders that might present with similar symptoms, and a bladder diary is an invaluable ...
Wallace, Karen M., Drake, Marcus J.
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Is the bladder filling protocol for prostate cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy fit for purpose? (Abstract only) [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction: Conventional radiotherapy has been planned with a full bladder based on the rationale that it will move the small bowel out of the treatment field and result in greater sparing of the bladder itself[1].
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Autophagy and urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: A review. [PDF]
, 2016 The incidence of urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (bladder cancer) remains high. While other solid organ malignancies have seen significant improvement in morbidity and mortality, there has been little change in bladder cancer mortality in the
Chandrasekar, Thenappan +1 more
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Overview of bladder heating technology: matching capabilities with clinical requirements. [PDF]
, 2016 Moderate temperature hyperthermia (40-45°C for 1 h) is emerging as an effective treatment to enhance best available chemotherapy strategies for bladder cancer.
Stauffer, Paul R., van Rhoon, Gerard C.
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TOpic: rare and special cases, the real "Strange cases" [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: The bladder hernia represents approximately 1-3% of all inguinal hernias, where patients aged more than 50 years have a higher incidence (10%).
AUTIERI, DOMENICO +48 more
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Effect of high level of bladder filling on spinal nociception and motoneuronal excitability [PDF]
, 2015 To verify whether high level of bladder distension may counteract the inhibitory effect of descending pathways on sacral spinal cord neurons and to investigate which spinal circuitries are possibly involved in such a viscero-somatic interaction ...
Carbone, Antonio +10 more
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Methionine Adenosyltransferase 1a (MAT1A) Enhances Cell Survival During Chemotherapy Treatment and is Associated with Drug Resistance in Bladder Cancer PDX Mice. [PDF]
, 2019 Bladder cancer is among the top ten most common cancers, with about ~380,000 new cases and ~150,000 deaths per year worldwide. Tumor relapse following chemotherapy treatment has long been a significant challenge towards completely curing cancer.
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Regional biomechanical and histological characterisation of the passive porcine urinary bladder: Implications for augmentation and tissue engineering strategies [PDF]
, 2009 The aim of this study was to identify and quantify potential regional and directional variations in the quasistatic uniaxial mechanical properties of the passive urinary bladder wall.
Bolland, Fiona +4 more
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Functional Genomics Profiling of Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma MicroRNAome as a Potential Biomarker. [PDF]
, 2018 Though bladder urothelial carcinoma is the most common form of bladder cancer, advances in its diagnosis and treatment have been modest in the past few decades.
Li, Wei Tse +4 more
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