ASCO GU: Clinical Staging in Bladder Cancer Inaccurate Nearly Half of the Time

The use of presurgical characteristics to assign the clinical stage of a patient with bladder cancer was found to be highly inaccurate with a clinical/pathological stage discrepancy rate of 47.8% found in a large sample of patients taken from the National Cancer Data Base between 1998 and 2009.
Source: Cancer Network - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news