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SUBMITTER: Chandrasekar T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4910764 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chandrasekar Thenappan T Evans Christopher P CP
Investigative and clinical urology 20160610
The incidence of urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (bladder cancer) remains high. While other solid organ malignancies have seen significant improvement in morbidity and mortality, there has been little change in bladder cancer mortality in the past few decades. The mortality is mainly driven by muscle invasive bladder cancer, but the cancer burden remains high even in nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer due to high recurrence rates and risk of progression. While apoptosis deregulation h ...[more]