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Revise guidelines for follow-up of asymptomatic hematuria?

Nature Reviews Urology volume 7, page 177 (2010)Cite this article

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Men who have had a negative workup for screening-detected microhematuria are no more likely to develop bladder cancer than those who did not have blood in their urine. This is the key finding of an analysis of 14 years of data collected following a population-based trial.

Two microhematuria-positive men for whom workup had been negative went on to develop bladder cancer, after intervals of approximately 7 and 11 years. Bladder malignancy was diagnosed in the same proportion of trial participants who had had no hematuria, between 1 and 14 years after screening. There was no significant difference between the two groups in disease-related mortality.

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  1. Madeb, R. et al. Long-term outcome of patients with a negative work-up for asymptomatic microhematuria. Urology 75, 20–26 (2010)

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  1. Suzanne J. Farley
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Farley, S. Revise guidelines for follow-up of asymptomatic hematuria?. Nat Rev Urol 7, 177 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2010.31

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