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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
