key articles
Inhibition of urinary bladder carcinogenesis by broccoli sprouts
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 - Isothiocyanates are a well-known class of cancer chemopreventive agents, and broccoli sprouts are a rich source of several isothiocyanates. Munday et al. (2008) reported that dietary administration to...
Authors: Munday et al.
Late Age ( > Years) Peak Incidence of Bladder Cancer
Thursday, 24 April 2008 - Schultzel et al. (2008) examined the incidence rates of bladder cancer by California Cancer Registry data to determine if any trends exist.
Complete records of the 55,159 cases of invasive bladder...
Authors: Schultzel et al.
Reflex Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Testing in the Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 - Kipp et al. (2008) evaluated the usefulness of fluorescence in situ hybridization in the treatment of patients with equivocal cytology.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization was done in residual urine from...
Authors: Kipp et al.
Open Surgical Repair of Ureteral Strictures and Fistulas
Monday, 21 April 2008 - Open surgery after cystectomy can be a challenge. Msezane et al. (2008) reported the incidence of postoperative urinary diversion-enteric fistula and ureteral strictures in patients undergoing radical...
Authors: Msezane et al.
Intravesical Instillation of Antifibrinolytic Agents
Monday, 21 April 2008 - Pan et al. (2008) determined whether intravesical instillation of antifibrinolytic agents could improve the antitumor effect of bacillus Calmette-Guerin. The authors also studied the impact of these...
Authors: Pan et al.
Guidelines for development of diagnostic markers in bladder cancer
Tuesday, 8 April 2008 - Advances in understanding cancer at the molecular level have identified numerous alterations associated with cancer development and progression. The efforts in evaluating these putative biomarkers in...
Authors: Goebell et al.
Urinary cytology and nuclear matrix protein 22 in the detection of bladder cancer
Thursday, 3 April 2008 - Hutterer et al. (2008) assessed the value of nuclear matrix protein-22 (NMP22), compared with urinary cytology, in predicting the recurrence of bladder cancer that is not transitional cell carcinoma...
Authors: Hutterer et al.
Meat intake and bladder cancer in a prospective study: a role for heterocyclic aromatic amines?
Wednesday, 2 April 2008 - The suspect carcinogens, heterocyclic amines (HAAs), found in well-done meat require host-mediated metabolic activation before inducing DNA mutations. The role of SULT1A1 (a human gene) and of NAT2 (also...
Authors: Lumbreras et al.
Perioperative chemotherapy could be a new strategy for bladder preservation
Friday, 28 March 2008 - New insights in bladder cancer were presented by Cora Sternberg, MD, from Rome during today’s meet-the-expert session on oncology. Perioperative chemotherapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer possibly...
By Franz-Guenter Runkel
The clinical significance of micro-metastatic lymph node disease in kidney and bladder cancer
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - MILAN - Treatment failure in bladder and kidney cancer following definitive surgery with curative intent is one of the most important urological problems unsolved so far. In his today's state-of-the-art...
By: Franz-Guenter Runkel
