Highlights
Paint may increase bladder cancer risk
Wednesday, 21 July 2010- People exposed to paint on the job -- including painters, plasterers, artists, decorators, and other workers -- appear to have an increased risk of bladder cancer, according to a meta-analysis study.
In...
Edited by: JV
FGFR3 mutation analysis on voided urine: non-invasive tool to detect BCa recurrence
Tuesday, 29 June 2010- New peptide receptors study findings have been reported by researchers at Erasmus Medical Center, Department of Pathology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
"Mutations in the fibroblast growth factor...
Edited by: JV
New diagnostic test for bladder cancer
Tuesday, 29 June 2010- Researchers from the Danish Cancer Society and the Herlev University Hospital of Copenhagen have developed a novel assay to test for multiple tumor markers in bladder cancer. The related report by Serizawa...
Edited by: ES
Routine follow-up after radical cystectomy has benefits
Thursday, 24 June 2010- Patients diagnosed with asymptomatic recurrences during routine follow-up after radical cystectomy and ileal orthotopic bladder substitution had a higher survival probability than patients with symptomatic...
Edited by: ES
Clinical outcomes of primary bladder carcinoma in situ after BCG therapy
Tuesday, 22 June 2010- The natural history of primary bladder carcinoma in situ has not been well described. D.C. Chade and colleagues conducted a study to describe patterns of disease recurrence and progression, and identify...
Edited by: JV
Cadherin switching and bladder cancer
Monday, 21 June 2010- Progression to or presentation with muscle invasive disease represents the critical clinical step in bladder cancer, necessitating more aggressive therapy and carrying a significantly worse survival rate....
Edited by: JV
Radiation does not improve survival for rare bladder cancer
Monday, 7 June 2010- In the largest study to date of a rare and deadly form of bladder cancer, researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found radiation therapy may not improve a patient's chances for survival.
While overall...
Edited by: ES
Vitamins fail to protect men against bladder cancer
Monday, 31 May 2010- New research suggests that vitamins may do nothing to protect men against bladder cancer and might even raise the risk of another type of cancer.
In one study examining vitamin use, researchers analyzed more...
Edited by: ES
Using urinary microRNA as a potential biomarker for bladder cancer
Monday, 31 May 2010- MicroRNAs are single stranded non-coding RNA molecules 19-25nt in length. They regulate the expression of protein-coding genes at the translational level. Both functional and observation data suggest an...
Edited by: JV
Assessing fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) in bladder cancer surveillance
Wednesday, 26 May 2010- The clinical utility of urine markers in urothelial cancer (UC) surveillance is not established. R. Youssef and colleagues previously evaluated the use of fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) in...
Edited by: JV
