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Appendix 2
MeSH Entry Terms for Bladder Cancer
Limits Activated: date range, 2000, Humans, Clinical Trial, Meta-Analysis, Practice
Guideline, Randomized Controlled Trial, Review, Controlled Clinical Trial, Government
Publications, Guideline, Journal Article, English, Core clinical journals.
MeSH entry terms (n = 16) No. search results
Reason for exclusiona
Neoplasm, Urinary Bladder
1,447
word rearrangement
Tumor, Bladder
1,559
word rearrangement
Tumors, Bladder
1,504
word rearrangement
Neoplasms, Bladder
1,617
word rearrangement
Neoplasm, Bladder
1,493
word rearrangement
Cancer, Urinary Bladder
1,494
word rearrangement
Cancer, Bladder
1,644
word rearrangement
Bladder Tumors
1,505
plural form
Bladder Neoplasms
1,617
plural form
Bladder Cancers
1,485
plural form
Cancer of the Bladder
1,644
contains prepositions
Cancer of Bladder
1,644
contains prepositions
Bladder Tumor
1,560
nonspecific to the urinary bladder
Bladder Neoplasm
1,493
nonspecific to the urinary bladder
Bladder Cancer
1,644
nonspecific to the urinary bladder
Urinary Bladder Neoplasm
1,447
returned fewer results
Urinary Bladder Tumorb
1,559
refers to the tumor, not cancer
c
Urinary Bladder Cancer
1,494
a
Word rearrangement means the entry term uses the same words as another entry term but in a
different order. Plural forms of entry terms are a plural version of another entry term. Terms containing prepositions include "of" and "the," which are commonly eliminated by search
algorithms. Terms that are nonspecific to the urinary bladder include results referencing other
tumors of the kidney, renal pelvis, ureters, and urethra that fall under the ICD-10 block of
malignant neoplasms of the urinary tract (C64–C68) rather than just urinary bladder tumors.
Entry terms describing the physical tumor may exclude articles that refer to the broader concept
of cancer.
b
Additional term included for consistency.
c
Term chosen to be used for all searches.
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine. MeSH Subject Headings. Available at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh (accessed April 2010).