Rare cases of urinary bladder cancer in adolescents and in an 18-year-old pregnant woman

Abstract

The authors have followed up five 16—18-year-old patients with transitional-cell urinary bladder carcinoma (UBC). They analyze rare cases of two 16-year-old youths diagnosed as having UBC of stages T₃ and T_2bN₀M₀. After complex treatment (urinary bladder resection, radio- and chemotherapy), one of them is a more than 10-year survivor with the tumor not being recurrent and metastazing; the other is a 9-month survivor. An 18-year-old woman at gestational weeks 27 who had concomitant congenital heart disease and transitional-cell UBC (T₁N₀M₀) complicated by profuse intravesicular hemorrhage, urinary bladder tamponade, and anemia was emergently hospitalized. She underwent transurethral bladder tumor resection. At gestational week 40, a healthy girl weighing 3.2 kg was vaginally delivered.