Urinary tract cancers: An overview for general practice

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Yaxley, Julian P
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2016
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Urinary tract cancers are common and comprise a gamut of lesions ranging from small benign tumors to aggressive neoplasms with high mortality. The predominant urinary tract malignancy is bladder cancer. The clinical challenge is early detection and adequate follow-up because recurrence is high and delayed diagnosis is associated with poor prognosis. Primary care physicians form a key part of the management apparatus for these patients and may be responsible for ensuring adequate ongoing surveillance. This article aims to outline the evaluation of patients in whom urinary tract cancer is suspected and briefly review the general principles of treatment.

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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care

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5

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3

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© The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

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Oncology and carcinogenesis

Cancer

hematuria

screening

transitional cell

urothelial

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Yaxley, JP, Urinary tract cancers: An overview for general practice, Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2016, 5 (3), pp. 533-538

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