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Bladder Neoplasms (bladder + neoplasm)
Selected AbstractsSex-specific familial risks of urinary bladder cancer and associated neoplasms in SwedenINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER, Issue 9 2009Justo Lorenzo Bermejo Abstract Male gender and a family history of cancer are established risk factors for urinary bladder neoplasms. This study used the latest update of the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, which includes 42,255 bladder cancer patients, to investigate the sex-specific incidences and types of tumors in relatives of bladder cancer patients. Men with parents or siblings affected by lung cancer did not show an increased risk of bladder neoplasms. Among women, the familial association was restricted to daughters of women with lung cancer. Brothers showed higher risks than the sons of bladder cancer patients. Men older than 54 years were at an increased risk of bladder cancer only if their fathers or siblings were diagnosed after age 65 years. The present data indicated a limited contribution of smoking to the familial clustering of bladder cancer with other neoplasms. The dependence of the relative risks on the type of familial relationship probably reflected a heterogeneous character of familial aggregation. Age-specific results suggested differential risk factors for tumors diagnosed before 50 years of age versus neoplasms detected later in life. The present data may guide the design of forthcoming gene identification studies and the interpretation of the genome-wide association studies that are about to be published. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Bladder pheochromocytoma encountered on sonographyJOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION ONCOLOGY, Issue 3 2004M Çelikta Summary Pheochromocytomas of the bladder are rare neoplasms, constituting <0.06% of all vesical tumours. Common presenting features of this tumour include episodes of sweating, hypertension, haematuria and postmicturition syncope. We describe a case of bladder pheochromocytoma in a 66-year-old man whose only symptom of macroscopic haematuria was initially assessed with ultrasonography. Clinical presentation highlights the need for a high index of suspicion during sonographic evaluation of bladder neoplasms because such tumours might present without symptoms of adrenergic excess. [source] A single-nucleotide polymorphism in the XPG gene, and tumour stage, grade, and clinical course in patients with nonmuscle-invasive neoplasms of the urinary bladderBJU INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2006SHIGERU SAKANO OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), Asp1104His (G3507C), in the XPG gene affects malignant phenotypes of nonmuscle-invasive urinary bladder neoplasms (NIBN), by investigating associations between the SNP and clinicopathological variables in patients with NIBN. PATIENTS AND METHODS The 233 patients constituted newly diagnosed cases of primary NIBN in the Stockholm area. The Asp1104His polymorphism in the XPG gene was genotyped using a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism technique. RESULTS The GC + CC genotypes were more frequent in stage pT1 tumours at initial diagnosis than pTa (odds ratio 1.9, 95% confidence interval 1.0,3.5, P = 0.048). The difference was larger in the young group (4.6, 1.9,11.8, P = 0.001). In the young group, the GC + CC genotypes were significantly more frequent in high-grade than in low-grade tumours (3.1, 1.5,6.8, P = 0.004) whereas in the older group the genotypes were less frequent in high-grade tumours (0.3, 0.1,0.7, P = 0.007). The XPG genotypes were not associated with tumour recurrence, stage progression or survival. CONCLUSION These results suggest that the SNP in the XPG gene might be related to tumour invasiveness in NIBN. [source] | ||||||||||