+ Top countries by new cases of bladder cancer per 100,000 (2018) Rank Country Overall Men Women 1 Lebanon 25 40 9 2 Greece 21 40 4 3 Denmark 18 29 8 4 Hungary 17 27 9 5 Albania 16 27 6 5 Netherlands 16 26 8 7 Belgium 16 27 6 8 Italy 15 27 6 9 Germany 15 26 6 10 Spain 15 27 6 Age-standardized death from bladder cancer per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004. Globally, in 2017, bladder cancer resulted in 196,000 deaths, a 5.4% (age adjusted) decrease from 2007. In 2018, the age adjusted rates of new cases of bladder cancer was 6 cases per 100,000 people and age adjusted death rate was 2 deaths per 100,000 people. Lebanon and Greece have the highest rate of new cases. In Lebanon, this high risk is attributed to high number of smokers and petrochemical air pollution. The risk of bladder cancer occurrence is four times higher in men than in women. Smoking can only partially explain this higher rates in men in western hemisphere. One other reason is that the androgen receptor, which is much more active in men than in women, may play a part in the development of the cancer. This hypothesis is also supported by the fact that men undergoing androgen suppression therapy for unrelated reason seem to have a lower risk of developing bladder cancer. In Africa, men are more prone to do field work and are exposed to infection with Schistosoma, this may explain to a certain extent the gap in incidence of squamous cell cancers in areas where bladder cancer is endemic. However, women present with more aggressive disease and have worse outcomes than men. This difference in outcomes is attributed to numerous factors such as, difference in carcinogen exposure, genetics, social and quality of care. One of the common signs of bladder cancer is hematuria and is quite often misdiagnosed as urinary tract infection in women, leading to a delay in diagnosis. Moreover, as mentioned earlier PSCA gene may play a role in aggressive tumors in women. Canada Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer accounting for 3.7% of the new cancer cases. in 2018, 30,700 Canadians were living with bladder cancer, 9160 new cases were diagnosed and 2467 died from it. In 2019, it is estimated that 11,800 new cases will be diagnosed and 2500 will die from it. Among the 11,800 new cases, 9100 will be in men and 2700 in women. Of the 2500 who would die from it, 1800 will be men and 700 will be women. China Bladder cancer is the 14th most common cancer and 16th most common cause of cancer death. In, 2018 it accounted for 82,300 new cases and 38,200 deaths. The number of new cases is comparatively lower compared to its western counterparts. Majority of the people are diagnosed with non-muscle invasive disease (75%) and the rest have muscle invasive disease (25%). Carcinoma in situ was present in only 2.4% of the cases. Europe In 2015, 131,000 news cases were diagnosed in the European Union with 40,000 deaths. It is the 5th most common cancer and 9th most common cause of cancer deaths.. The 5-year relative survival for bladder cancers diagnosed between 2000 and 2007 is 69%. Geographic variation is seen in survival rates with 5-year survival rates of 75% in Northern to 65% in Eastern Europe. United Kingdom Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the UK accounting for 2.7% of all the new cancers cases. In 2018, there was 12,200 new cases and 6100 people died from it. United States In the United States in 2019 80,470 cases and 17,670 deaths are expected making it the sixth most common type of cancer in the region. Bladder cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in men and the 12th most common cancer in women. Around 62,000 men and 19,000 women are diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2019. Between 2012 and 2016 annual rate of new bladder cancer cases decreased by one percent per year.
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