Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian

The bladder constitutes the most frequent localization of malignant tumours in the urinary tract and it is one of the common urological malignancies occurring worldwide in both sexes. Local literature on bladder cancer are rather scare and hence the need for a study of this nature. Sixty-seven p...

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Main Author:	Almotawakel, Ahmed Ali Abdullah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2006
Subjects:	RC Internal medicine
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spelling	my-usm-ep.473962020-09-24T06:48:27Z Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian 2006 Almotawakel, Ahmed Ali Abdullah RC Internal medicine The bladder constitutes the most frequent localization of malignant tumours in the urinary tract and it is one of the common urological malignancies occurring worldwide in both sexes. Local literature on bladder cancer are rather scare and hence the need for a study of this nature. Sixty-seven patients with cancer of the bladder treated in a period of ten years from 1996 to 2005 at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia were studied to determine the pattern of the disease and highlight the clinical presentation, cystoscopic finding, histopathology and modalities offered for treatment of the disease. It was found that the mean age of occurrence was 64.5 years. Male to female ratio was 5.7: 1 and predominantly affecting the Malays (86.57%). Sixty-one percent smoker with significant statistical correlation to tumour grade. The most common clinical presentations were haematuria (85.1 %). Transitional cell carcinoma was found in 95.5% of studied population and most patients present with invasive stage (64.2%). TUR was done for 83.6% of them while 28.4% of patients underwent systemic chemotherapy therapy and 4.5% underwent radiotherapy. 2006 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/47396/ http://eprints.usm.my/47396/1/Ten%20Tears%20Review%20Of%20Cancer%20Bladder%20In%20HUSMKK...2006...mka.-24%20pages.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
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spellingShingle	RC Internal medicine Almotawakel, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian
description	The bladder constitutes the most frequent localization of malignant tumours in the urinary tract and it is one of the common urological malignancies occurring worldwide in both sexes. Local literature on bladder cancer are rather scare and hence the need for a study of this nature. Sixty-seven patients with cancer of the bladder treated in a period of ten years from 1996 to 2005 at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia were studied to determine the pattern of the disease and highlight the clinical presentation, cystoscopic finding, histopathology and modalities offered for treatment of the disease. It was found that the mean age of occurrence was 64.5 years. Male to female ratio was 5.7: 1 and predominantly affecting the Malays (86.57%). Sixty-one percent smoker with significant statistical correlation to tumour grade. The most common clinical presentations were haematuria (85.1 %). Transitional cell carcinoma was found in 95.5% of studied population and most patients present with invasive stage (64.2%). TUR was done for 83.6% of them while 28.4% of patients underwent systemic chemotherapy therapy and 4.5% underwent radiotherapy.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Almotawakel, Ahmed Ali Abdullah
author_facet	Almotawakel, Ahmed Ali Abdullah
author_sort	Almotawakel, Ahmed Ali Abdullah
title	Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian
title_short	Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian
title_full	Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian
title_fullStr	Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian
title_full_unstemmed	Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian
title_sort	ten years review of cancer bladder in hospital universiti sains malaysia, kubang kerian
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
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publishDate	2006
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Ten years review of cancer bladder in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian

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