Treatment and Outcome of Childhood Bladder Cancer

Treatment options for childhood bladder cancer include the following:

In contrast to adult bladder carcinomas, most pediatric tumors are low grade and superficial. Pediatric patients have an excellent prognosis after transurethral resection.[1-4] In one review of the literature, recurrence risk and mortality rates were low in pediatric patients (8.6% and 3.7%, respectively).[5] Most recurrences were observed within 9 months of treatment, and all recurrences occurred within 32 months of treatment. This finding suggests that patients should be monitored for at least 3 years.

Squamous cell carcinomas and more aggressive carcinomas have been reported in children and may require a more aggressive surgical approach.[3,6-8]