“…All examined tumours showed cytogenetic aberrations involving the short and/or long arm of chromosome 9, and indeed the importance of chromosome 9 rearrangement as an early, presumably primary, event in BC tumorigenesis is widely accepted (Miyao et al, 1993;Gibas et al, 1997). The ubiquity of chromosome 9 changes in our series may be contrasted with the absence Ta/G1-2 46,X,t(X;9)(p11;p11),del(1)(p11),+del(1)(p11), del(7)(q11),i(8)(q10),add(9)(q12),der(11)t(7;11) (q11;p15)del(11)(q12),der(13)t(1;13)(p11;p11), del(13)(q13q22),-14[100] BT6/Bladder Ta/G1-2 46,X,t(X;9)(p11;p11),del(1)(p11),+del(1)(p11), del(7)(q11),i(8)(q10),add(9)(q12),der(11)t(7;11) (q11;p15)del(11)(q12),der(13)t(1;13)(p11;p11), del(13)(q13q22),-14[100] BT7/Bladder T1/G3 46,X,t(X;9)(p11;p11),del(1)(p11),+del(1)(p11), del(7)(q11),add(9)(q12),der(11)t(7;11)(q11;p15) del(11)(q12),der(13)t(1;13)(p11;p11),-14[30]/ 46,X,t(X;9)(p11;p11),del(1)(p11),del(1)(p11), del(7)(q11),i(8)(q10),add(9)(q12),der(11)t(7;11) (q11;p15)del(11)(q12),der(13)t(1;13)(p11;p11), del(13)(q13q22),-14[40]/ 46,X,t(X;9)(p11;p11),del(1)(p11),+del(1)(p11), del(7)(q11),i(8)(q10),add(9)(q12),der(11)t(7;11) (q11;p15)del(11)(q12),der (13) Ta/G2 89-94,XXYY,add(6)(p21),add(8)(p11), del(8)(p22),-9,add(16)(p11),der(17)t(1;17) (q12;p11),-1+1-2mar[cp25] RT10/Bladder Ta/G2 89-93,XXYY,add(6)(p21),add(8)(p11), del(8)(p22),-9,add(16)(p11),der(17)t(1;17) (q12;p11),+mar [cp30] of abnormalities affecting chromosome 17 in most of the tumours, in spite of the fact that such changes, too, are common in bladder carcinomas, especially in invasive poorly differentiated TCCs (Fujimoto et al, 1992;Grossfeld et al, 1997).…”