Superficial Bladder Cancer

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NCI: Superficial Bladder Cancer is a term used by urologists to describe infiltrating carcinomas that have not invaded into the muscularis propia of the urinary bladder wall regardless of their histologic type or grade, and therefore it does not represent a pathologic entity. It is important for the term stage 0is bladder cancer (carcinoma in situ of the bladder) not to be equated with superficial bladder cancer. Stage I bladder cancer may be considered superficial. --2003

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