Résumé
Invasion and metastasis are the main behavior of malignant tumors. Lymph node metastasis is an early metastasis mode of bladder cancer, which is an important risk factor for poor prognosis . It is also an important index to decide the treatment, especially to determine the operation mode and strategy. Therefore, searching for the evaluation index of lymph node metastasis of malignant tumor is the focus of tumor research. In recent years, the literature of molecular biology for predicting the staging of bladder cancer has been reviewed, but the literature on biological assessment of lymph node metastasis hasn′t. At present, many evaluation indexes related to lymph node metastasis of bladder cancer have been reported in addition to the new imaging Methods , from gene to protein, and then to cell and tissue. In this paper,we try to look into the biological research progress in the evaluation of lymph node metastasis of bladder cancer.