Introduction to Bladder Cancer

Bladder Cancer Statistics

• Bladder cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer and the 9th leading cause of cancer deaths among American men.

• Approximately 60,000 new cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year.

• Bladder cancer occurs about 4 times more frequently in men than in women.

• The rate of occurrence of bladder cancer in whites is about twice as high as that for African Americans.

• Bladder cancer is primarily a disease of the elderly population with about 50% of cases occurring in people age 72 or older. The median age of diagnosis is 65 years.

• At the time of diagnosis, approximately 75% of bladder tumors are superficial; 20% are invasive; and up to 5% are metastatic.

• There are over 500,000 bladder cancer survivors in the United States