Who is affected by bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is:1
- Four times more common in men than in women.
- Affected by race. White Americans develop bladder cancer about twice as often as African-Americans or Hispanics.
- Present in smokers twice as often as nonsmokers.
- Smoking is estimated to cause about half of bladder cancer deaths in men.
- Smoking is estimated to cause about one-fourth of bladder cancer deaths in women.
- More common in people older than 40.
- More common in workers in dye, rubber, or leather industries.
Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer among men and the ninth among women in the United States.2
| Author: | Shannon Erstad, MBA/MPH | Last Updated: May 25, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Philip Belitsky, MD, FRCSC - Urology | |
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