Urologie pro praxi 4/2019

Bladder cancer in young adult

Bladder cancer is one of the most common forms of malignancies involoving the urinary system. Multiple risk factors have been associated with its etiology. The most common are tobacco smoking and chemical exposures most often from the working environment. It is usually diagnosed in older people with an average age around 70 years. In rare cases, bladder cancer can be diagnosed in the pediatric population and in young adults, where it usually presents as a low-grade, non-invasive disease. In our case, we discussed the 28-year-old man who was at our hospital due to acute pancreatitis. As an accidental founding on CT scan of abdomen we described a papillary urothelial neoplasms of low malignant potential (PUNLMP). In the available literature, there are studies on typical neoplasms of the bladder in young patients. However, the prognostic data are missing from the population of elderly adults and furthermore the etiology is insufficiently investigated. The presented case illustrates the case of a young adult patient with no clear risk factors who was diagnosed with a papillary urothelial neoplasms of low malignant potential.

Keywords: bladder cancer, young adults, papillary urothelial neoplasms of low malignant potential.