A novel treatment approach prolonging survival in an uncommon metastatic primary bladder adenocarcinoma

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Primary bladder adenocarcinoma  is an epithelial malignancy with pure glandular differentiation, without evidence of typical urothelial (transitional cell) carcinoma. PBA is rare, accounting for 0.5%-2% of all malignant bladder neoplasms, and it is seen more frequently in men than in women and is commonly diagnosed in the sixth decade of life.1-3 Clinical presentation includes hematuria and symptoms of bladder irritation.2

 

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primary bladder adenocarcinoma, PBA, urothelial carcinoma, malignant bladder neoplasm, hematuria, bladder irritation, schistosomiasis-endemic, congenital bladder exstrophy, ectopia vesicae, urachal adenocarcinoma, enteric, nonenteric, wild-type KRAS
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Primary bladder adenocarcinoma  is an epithelial malignancy with pure glandular differentiation, without evidence of typical urothelial (transitional cell) carcinoma. PBA is rare, accounting for 0.5%-2% of all malignant bladder neoplasms, and it is seen more frequently in men than in women and is commonly diagnosed in the sixth decade of life.1-3 Clinical presentation includes hematuria and symptoms of bladder irritation.2

 

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Primary bladder adenocarcinoma  is an epithelial malignancy with pure glandular differentiation, without evidence of typical urothelial (transitional cell) carcinoma. PBA is rare, accounting for 0.5%-2% of all malignant bladder neoplasms, and it is seen more frequently in men than in women and is commonly diagnosed in the sixth decade of life.1-3 Clinical presentation includes hematuria and symptoms of bladder irritation.2

 

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A novel treatment approach prolonging survival in an uncommon metastatic primary bladder adenocarcinoma
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A novel treatment approach prolonging survival in an uncommon metastatic primary bladder adenocarcinoma
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primary bladder adenocarcinoma, PBA, urothelial carcinoma, malignant bladder neoplasm, hematuria, bladder irritation, schistosomiasis-endemic, congenital bladder exstrophy, ectopia vesicae, urachal adenocarcinoma, enteric, nonenteric, wild-type KRAS
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primary bladder adenocarcinoma, PBA, urothelial carcinoma, malignant bladder neoplasm, hematuria, bladder irritation, schistosomiasis-endemic, congenital bladder exstrophy, ectopia vesicae, urachal adenocarcinoma, enteric, nonenteric, wild-type KRAS
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