Does the current World Health Organization classification predict the outcome better in patients with noninvasive bladder cancer of early or regular onset?

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-197

  Burger, Maximilian ^a,b   Denzinger, Stefan ^b   Wieland, Wolf Ferdinand ^b   Stief, Christian G ^b   Hartmann, Arndt ^c   Zaak, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Grading; Noninvasive; Prognosis; WHO classification; Young

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 45449113611     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07538.x     Document Type: Article

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