Is bladder cancer really the 'poor man's disease?

Bladder cancer killed approximately 17,240 people in the U.S. in 2017. In the U.S., the bladder cancer risk for men is about one in 26 and for women about one in 90. read more

Bladder cancer statistics do not support the hypothesis that bladder cancer is a "poor man's disease. read more

Bladder cancer statistics do not support the hypothesis that bladder cancer is a "poor man's disease." Bladder cancer tends to occur more frequently in Western industrialized countries, Caucasians are affected more often than all other races/ethnicities. read more

They call it the poor man’s cancer because the highest level of occurrence appears to be in the lower income groups. “I can name dozens of celebrities, like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert de Niro and Bob Monkhouse, who have had prostate cancer but few who have suffered bladder cancer,” says Mr Cole. read more