Diagnosis and Treatment of Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

Dear Colleagues,

Bladder cancer is the second most frequent urothelial cancer that occurs most often in elderly patients. At first detection, about 75% of cases are non-muscle-invasive bladder cancers (NMIBC), with a generally high recurrence rate and a high risk of progression in some. This makes NMIBC not only a bothersome disease that requires long-term treatment and follow up for the patients but also a disease with a high socio-economic burden.

Since risk factors such as smoking and aromatic amines are well established, exposure reduction is mandatory. Further options are early detection and an optimal primary treatment with a combined treatment of transurethral resection and intravesical instillation including all kind of immunoncological approaches. In the future, histopathological subtype differentiation and testing for genetic tumour alterations will become more and more important in clinical routine.

Given the high importance of bladder cancer in the field of uro-oncology and research, the journal Medicina is launching this Special Issue.

We encourage you and your co-workers to submit your articles reporting on this topic. Reviews or original articles dealing with epidemiological aspects, the prevention and the early detection of bladder cancer are welcome. Further topics for this Special Issue should include optimized primary treatments, risk assessments and the optimal follow-up management of NMIBC. In addition, we warmly invite you to submit articles reporting on histopathological and molecular subtype differentiations of the bladder as well as the increasing relevance of genetic alterations in this disease.

Dr. Marcus Horstmann
Guest Editor

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