Bladder cancer staging

The article deals with bladder cancer staging. A general discussion of staging is found in cancer staging.

General

TNM staging the most commonly used.
Urachal carcinoma has its own staging system - see Sheldon staging system.^[1]

T stage	Criteria	Comment
Ta	non-invasive papillary carcinoma
Tis	carcinoma in situ
T1	lamina propria invasion
T2	muscularis propria invasion	details in muscularis propria invasion in the urinary bladder; management typically is radical cystectomy or radical cystoprostatectomy
T3a	microscopic extravesicular invasion
T3b	macroscopic extravesicular invasion
T4a	extension into the uterus, vagina or prostate
T4b	extension into the abdominal wall or pelvic wall

N stage	Criteria
N1	one regional lymph node metastasis
N2	more than one regional lymph node metastasis
N3	metastasis to the common iliac lymph nodes

↑ Bruins, HM.; Visser, O.; Ploeg, M.; Hulsbergen-van de Kaa, CA.; Kiemeney, LA.; Witjes, JA. (Oct 2012). "The clinical epidemiology of urachal carcinoma: results of a large, population based study.". J Urol 188 (4): 1102-7. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2012.06.020. PMID 22901574.