Whats the survival rate for women diagnosed with bladder cancer?
Overall, the survival rate for women with bladder cancer tends to be lower than men with bladder cancer by about 5 to 10 percent, so it’s in the 65 percent range. It’s not clear why this is – there are generally two thoughts on it, one is that women tend to perhaps have a little bit of a delay in their diagnosis due to the fact that the diagnosis is often confused with bladder infections, but the other is that although anatomically the bladder of a woman is very similar to that of a man in terms of having the same layers or the same number of layers in it. Generally, the female bladder is much thinner, and it doesn’t have the muscular back wall that the male bladder has for a number of reasons, including the prostate related issues. Since the female bladder is significantly thinner than the male bladder, the cancers tend to become more invasive earlier, be of smaller volume, and have more access to the lymphatics in the vasculator.
