["Superficial bladder cancers" do not exist anymore].
"Superficial bladder tumours" term is progressively abandoned in the urological community because of its ambiguity leading possibly to harmful confusions. The French Oncologic Society proposes to designate by non-infiltrating bladder neoplasm by the muscle Ta, T1 and Tis tumours.
Irani
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Service d'urologie, CHU la Milétrie, 86000 Poitiers, France. j.irani@chu-poitiers.fr
Bernardini
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Davin
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Mazerolles
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Pfister
Christian
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Roy
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