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Bladder carcinoma is the most frequent cancer of the urinary tract [1]. About 90% of bladder cancers are urothelial carcinomas, while the remaining are squamous cell carcinomas, or adenocarcinomas. Bladder cancer is often a superficial tumor which tends to recur locally; however about one-third of the cancers are invasive and they are associated with a high risk of death from distant metastases.
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Fanti, S., Farsad, M., Mansi, L., Castellucci, P. (2018). Urological Malignancies. In: Atlas of PET-CT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57742-4_11
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