Bilharziasis and Bladder Cancer

Bilharziasis and bladder cancer: a time trend analysis of 9843 patients.

OBJECTIVE To explore any changes in bladder carcinoma during 37 years period, in regard to: its frequency, bilharzia association, histological profile and demographic data. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study on 9843 patients treated at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, during the years 1970-2007. Three groups were selected: series (A) included 3212 patient...

Prognostic Value of Histology and Lymph Node Status in Bilharziasis-bladder Cancer: Outcome Prediction Using Neural Networks

In this paper, the evaluation of two features in predicting the outcomes of patients with bilharziasis bladder cancer has been investigated using an RBF neural network. Prior to prediction, the feature subsets were extracted from the whole set of features for the purpose of providing a high performance of the network. Throughout the analysis of the prognostic feature combinations, two features,...

Gallbladder Bilharziasis

A 30 years old man presented with symptoms of Bilharziasis. Ultrasound showed gallstones in the gallbladder which was removed laproscopically, heavy bilharzial infection was detected in the gallbladder tissue. The first case in Saudi Arabia is reported. A review of the world literatures since 1966 about the subject is presented and different aspects of the gallbladder schistosomiasis are discus...

Bilharziasis in tropical Africa.

MicroRNAs as biomarkers associated with bladder cancer

Bladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer with significant morbidity and mortality. Recently, numerous studies demonstrated that microRNAs are emerging as diagnostic biomarkers for bladder cancer. Specific miRNA profiles have been identified for several samples from patients with bladder cancer. MicroRNAs are noncoding RNA molecules of approximately 23 nucleotides that play important roles...