Ureteral cancer

Ureteral cancer
Ureteral cancer
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Ureteral cancer is cancer of the ureters, muscular tubes that propel urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. It is also known as ureter cancer,^[1] renal pelvic cancer,^[1] and rarely ureteric cancer or uretal cancer. This kind of cancer is very rare.^[1]^[2]

Ureteral cancer is usually transitional cell carcinoma.^[2]^[3] Transitional cell carcinoma is "a common cause of ureter cancer and other urinary (renal pelvic) tract cancers."^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ureter Cancer, Mayo Clinic
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Ries, LAG; Young, JL; Keel, GE; Eisner, MP; Lin, YD; Horner, M-J, eds. (2007), "Chapter 30: Cancers of Rare Sites", SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: US SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics, SEER Program, vol. NIH Pub. No. 07-6215, Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, pp. 251–262, archived from the original on 10 October 2013, retrieved 18 October 2013
↑ Transitional Cell Cancer (Kidney/Ureter), National Cancer Institute

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[mayo-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ureter Cancer, Mayo Clinic

[SEERch30-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Ries, LAG; Young, JL; Keel, GE; Eisner, MP; Lin, YD; Horner, M-J, eds. (2007), "Chapter 30: Cancers of Rare Sites", SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: US SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics, SEER Program, vol. NIH Pub. No. 07-6215, Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, pp. 251–262, archived from the original on 10 October 2013, retrieved 18 October 2013

[3] Transitional Cell Cancer (Kidney/Ureter), National Cancer Institute

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