How useful is bladder cancer screening?


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Messing EM et al. (2006) Long-term outcome of hematuria home screening for bladder cancer in men. Cancer 107: 2173–2179


The majority of patients who die from bladder cancer have high-grade, muscle-invasive disease. It would seem logical, therefore, that screening programs that detect bladder cancer before it


reaches this stage are useful in lowering mortality rates. A US team has investigated whether bladder cancer screening in Madison, WI, resulted in improved outcomes for screened patients,


compared with unscreened patients.


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