New unique local research hopes to explain high rates of bladder cancer in Rhode Island

A new case control study assesses environmental exposures that might explain the high rate of bladder cancer in Rhode Island.

It’s a collaboration between the Lifespan Cancer Institute, the Minimally Invasive Urology Institute at The Miriam Hospital, the Cancer Center at Brown University, and the Brown School of Public health.

“The most common culprit that we connect to this is smoking,” said Dr. Dragan Golijanin, director the Minimally Invasive Urology Institute at The Miriam Hospital.