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Interview w/ Dr. Bela Denes
This sure seems like it must be a major factor in the defference in survival rates. This article mentions a 5 to 10% difference but my calculations when you look at the number of men and women who are diagnosed each year and the number of men and women who die from it each year, the run rate over the last few years comes out to a 4% higher rate for women.
If women have "much thinner" bladders and the rate of growth for a bladder tumor is the same, then the amount of time for a woman to progress from one T stage to the next would be significantly less than for a man.
If we follow that logic, it would seem to be a logical conclusion for the recommendation to be that for a woman with symptoms to ALWAYS get referred to a urologist rather than accepting a GP's or GYN's opinion regarding UTIs or blood in the urine.
Mike
P.S: I did some searching and found a study on bladder thickness and men's bladder are generally 0.3mm thicker than women's bladders. Men with enlarged prostate BPE or LUTS generally have even thicker bladders. Bladder wall thickness increases slightly with age in both sexes equally.
Link to the study.
(BWT means Bladder Wall Thickness).
So if I interpret this data correctly, women's bladder are 10% thinner than men's. The difference would be even greater when compared to men with enlarged prostate (which is very common starting around age 40).
