There are multiple ways in which the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer can contribute to worse outcomes in women. One is, number one, there are delays in the referrals of women to urologists from the initial diagnosis of hematuria. There are some biological pathways that you know are multifactorial that may contribute and most importantly as I said the anatomy, the surgical treatment of these women can sometimes even start as early on as the removal of the bladder tumor in the transurethral fashion with under-sampling, under-staging of these women...
There are multiple ways in which the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer can contribute to worse outcomes in women. One is, number one, there are delays in the referrals of women to urologists from the initial diagnosis of hematuria. There are some biological pathways that you know are multifactorial that may contribute and most importantly as I said the anatomy, the surgical treatment of these women can sometimes even start as early on as the removal of the bladder tumor in the transurethral fashion with under-sampling, under-staging of these women.
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