Urinary bladder cancer is the 4th most frequent cancer diagnosed in men and the 9th most frequent cancer diagnosed in women. When first diagnosed with urinary bladder cancer, most people’s cancers are confined to the bladder (74%) rather than it being an advanced stage of urinary bladder cancer. Surgery is the main treatment for urinary bladder cancer.

Each year in the United States, nearly 56,000 new cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed and approximately 12,000 people die from this disease. The prevalence of bladder cancer in the United States is estimated at almost 500,000 cases. Almost twice as many cases of bladder cancer occur in men as in women, with cigarette smoking its leading cause. Other risk factors include exposure to industrial carcinogens and chronic infection with Schistosomiasis haematobium.

Learn more at the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network