bladder cancer

collocation in English

meaningsofbladderandcancer

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bladder
noun[C]
uk
/ˈblæd.ər/
us
/ˈblæd.ɚ/
an organ like a bag inside the body of a person or animal, where urine is stored before it leaves ...
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cancer
noun
uk
/ˈkæn.sər/
us
/ˈkæn.sɚ/
a serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often ...
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(Definition ofbladderandcancerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbladder cancer

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However, it is uncertain how large a percentage of the patients with earlybladdercancerreceived such treatment.
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Unfortunately, she developed a highly malignantbladdercancer.
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The sum of true positives and false negatives equals the true prevalence ofbladdercancer(p) times the total number of study subjects (n).
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Hanfmann et al.25 meanwhile mention a reduction in bladder capacity during radiotherapy to the prostate, without drawing conclusions as to long-term implications or subsequent potential risk ofbladdercancer.
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Neugut et al.23 discuss an elevation in the risk ofbladdercancerfollowing prostate radiotherapy as being "not dramatic", and report that there is no increased risk of rectal carcinoma.
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A classic example is exposure in the dye industry, which causesbladdercancermuch later.
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That hospital has the highest cure rate forbladdercancerin the world.
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Until we know for sure whether there is a connection betweenbladdercancerand benzidine-based dyes, there should be a ban on them.
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Epidemiological studies carried out in this country have not demonstrated any link between exposure to benzidine-based dyes and an excess incidence ofbladdercancer.
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It showed that there was an increased risk ofbladdercanceramongst workers employed at that time in the rubber cable industry.
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The varying chances of survival for, for example,bladdercancerare shocking.
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None of these has indicated a raised incidence ofbladdercanceramongst dye users.
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The potential risk which might be expected from the use of benzidine-based dyes is that ofbladdercancer.
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There is no doubt that the increases inbladdercancerand in some other cancers—skin cancers in sweeps and in mule spinners—were catastrophes.
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There is one case of prostate cancer, one ofbladdercancerand one of lung cancer, and there are three cases of pre-cancerous cervical cells.
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Other evidence substantiates the fear that there might be a strong connection between the use of the dyes and the increase inbladdercancer.
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Bladdercancerhas been a prescribed industrial disease since 1953.
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