An initial screen included a bladder cancer panel with 16 proteins (MCP‐1, MIP‐1α, MIP‐1β, IP‐10, IFN‐α, IL‐1α, IL‐1RA, IL‐8, IL‐7, IL‐31, IL‐15, TNF‐β, Eotaxin, SDF‐1α, Rantes, and GRO). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL8 and urinary bladder carcinoma.