ABSTRACT
Urinary bladder An average of 260 000 new cases of urinary bladder cancer are diagnosed worldwide every year.1,2 There are large regional variations with high incidence rates in the US, Western Europe, and Northern Africa, while the disease is relatively rare in Asia.2 The incidence has been steadily increasing for decades but in some countries a decline has been observed recently.1,2 Although bladder cancer is considered to be a man’s disease and relatively rare among women, the number of women afflicted compares to that of cervical and ovarian cancer.2
