Rak pęcherza moczowego – epidemiologia, diagnostyka i leczenie w XXI wieku

Urinary bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers occurring in those aged older, especially between 60 and 80 years of age. In Poland, it is the fourth (after lung, prostate, and colon cancers) on/in the incidence of cancer in men and thirteenth in women. Epidemiological indicators of bladder cancer in Poland are disturbing to other European countries, where a decrease is observed in both morbidity and mortality. In the years 1991-2006 in Poland a very dynamic increase in the incidence of bladder cancer (reaching 59%) was recorded. What's more, our country ranks second, after Spain, in Europe in terms of mortality from this cancer. In the coming years the number of cases and deaths from bladder cancer in Poland is expected to increase. This article discusses new information/data on the epidemiology, methods of diagnosis and treatment of patients with bladder cancer.