Bladder Cancer

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Risk Factors

Cigarette smoking.
Work-related exposure to cancer-causing substances: chemicals used in dye, paint, oil, and textile industries.
Pesticides: exposure to arsenic-contaminated drinking water due to nearby use of pesticides.
Prior treatment with cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy).
Prior radiation treatment to the pelvis, such as for prostate, rectal, cervical or ovarian cancers.
Prior urinary tract or bladder infection with schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection most common in Africa.

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This article was reviewed and updated June 2007.


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