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. 2017 Oct 27;12:7937–7946. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S140977

Table 1.

Histopathology of all animals in the study detailing tumor incidence

Mouse Week
Week 17

1 Cancer in submucosa and muscle; deeply muscle invasive
2 Large tumor, cancer in submucosa, muscle thinned out but tumor non-muscle invasive
3 No tumor, in situ disease; confined to epithelium
4 Large muscle-invasive tumor
5 Lower graded lesion, cancer with no squamous differentiation, tumor does not reach muscle
Week 20

1 High-grade tumor, does not reach muscle; muscle attenuated with submucosa expanded by tumor
2 Extensive squamous differentiation, tumor reaches outer surface of bladder extending all the way through the muscle
3 Highly inflamed, epithelium has large variable nuclei, dysplastic; however, no musle-invasive tumor
Week 22

1 Extensive keratin and inflammation, tumor through bladder wall, profound inflammatory response
2 Tumor growing down and invading the muscle, tumor stays superficial in the muscle
3 No muscle-invasive tumor present