Bladder Cancer - Risks and Treatment Issues

Abstract

Bladder cancer is a common cause for painless hematuria with clot passage in any age especially past the third decade. Histologically 90% of bladder cancers are of urothelial origin. 5% are squamous cell carcinoma and less than 2% are adenocarcinomas or other variants.  Urothelial carcinoma is the most common malignancy of the urinary tract and is the second most cause of death among genitourinary tumours