title: [Epidemiological characteristics of bladder tumors in the Cuenca area throughout a seventeen-year period].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Bladder cancer is such an important health problem and accounts for most of the surgical duty in the urology departments. We achieve to draw the features of patients diagnosed with bladder tumors in the Cuenca area throughout a seventeen-year period.
  
  
  METHODS
  From January 1985 to December 2002 we recorded in the Cuenca area the entire urologic tumor recently diagnosed. The following features were recorded: gender, age, pathology, TNM classification, risk factors (alcohol, cigarette smoking and coffee), social demography (rural/ urban) and the presence of metastasis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We achieve significant differences within pathology, age at diagnosis, incidence, social demography and some risk factors throughout the seventeen-year period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More bladder cancers are diagnosed along this time, more of them are infiltrating, in an aging population and from a rural precedence although a slightly decrease in the overall population in this are has been documented.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: García Mediero
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pérez López
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Cabo Ripoll
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Samblás García
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rubio Bodemer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reyes Guijarro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Características epidemiológicas de las neoplasias vesicales en la provincia de Cuenca en los ultimos 17 años.