Bladder Cancer Health Feed

Try to maintain a healthy lifestyle and drink plenty of water. Get Cystoscopy and Usg / CT Scan of Abdomen and pelvis once in 6-12 months to diagnose a tumor in its early stage.

These tumours have the potential to become cancer but not yet become one. So you can take it as one step behind cancer.

Statistics report an approximate 38.5% of men and women are diagnosed with some type of cancer during their lifetime. Getting widely prevalent, cancer is a deadly disease. However, due to the continuous efforts in the field of medical science, several treatment methods offering positive results are on the evolve.

Scientists have made great progress in discerning the characteristics of normal and cancer cells in the bladder and also an insight into how this helps the cancer cells to grow...more

Statistics report an approximate 38.5% of men and women are diagnosed with some type of cancer during their lifetime. Getting widely prevalent, cancer is a deadly disease. However, due to the continuous efforts in the field of medical science, several treatment methods offering positive results are on the evolve.

Scientists have made great progress in discerning the characteristics of normal and cancer cells in the bladder and also an insight into how this helps the cancer cells to grow...more

Yes here there are two diseases. Cardiac and bladder cancer. Cardiac will take the priority first as it can cause immediate mortality. As for as bladder cancer is concerned, we need to have a definite plan. We need to aim at bladder preservation by using neoadjuvant chemotherapy and concurrent chemiradiotherapy. We have to keep radical cystectomy with ileal conduit as a salvage option.

Hi, upto 5 rbcs per hpf is normal.
However a sonography and yearly cystoscopy are must to diagnose any recurrence early.

Bladder cancer can be caused by a variety of factors which include genetic factors, inheritance, drugs, chemicals, environment-related factors and smoking. In fact, smoking tobacco is one of the major causes of bladder cancer around the world. The chemicals present in tobacco can irritate the bladder lining which ultimately leads to bladder cancer. Besides smoking other important environmental factors might be chemotherapy, exposure to chemicals from newspaper, dye, leather, paints industries.more