ABSTRACT

Regarding bladder cancer, the following statements are true EXCEPT?

The estimated male:female ratio is 2:1.

At the initial diagnosis of bladder cancer, 75% of cases are diagnosed as non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer and approximately 25% as muscle-invasive disease.

Approximately one-third of patients diagnosed with muscle-invasive disease have undetected metastasis at the time of treatment of the primary tumour.

25% of patients subjected to radical cystectomy present with lymph node involvement at the time of surgery.