Urine survivin in nonivasive diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder

Abstract

Our results demonstrate that high level of survivin in urine corelates with the tumour stage and size as well as with the tumour grade. Survivin level in urine can be used as predictor of high stage and low diferenciatio of bladder tumour.

Keywords

• Urinary bladder
• survivin
• urotelial carcinoma