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Bladder Cancer Symptoms And Treatment By John Smith

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What Exactly is The Bladder
Bladder is a muscular, balloon shaped hollow organ that stores urine (Urine is a fluid that contains water and waste soluble in water that are not required by our body). The kidney separates the waste product from our blood and passes it on to the bladder in order to throw it out of our body.

Bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is caused due to growth of carcinogen cells in the bladder. The lumps (nodules) developed inside the bladder can be malignant or benign. There are several types of bladder cancer namely Transitional Cell Carcinoma (which is a common type of bladder cancer. This type of cancer develops in the lining of the bladder wall's cells), Squamous Cell Carcinoma, and glandular cell carcinoma known as Adenocarcinomas.

Besides the types of bladder cancer, it is also classified based on the nature of tumor and the extent it has spread. If the tumor hasn’t left the lining of the bladder and hasn’t yet spread to the other part it is called superficial bladder cancer. The bladder cancer is called invasive cancer if it has started spreading to the muscle walls of the bladder (This type of cancer has more probability of spreading to the other parts of body).

Who is at risk?
Like any other type of cancer, people in old age are mainly at risk of developing bladder cancer (People of age group 60 and above). History indicates that majority of patients suffering from bladder cancer are male patients (about 70% are male among the patients suffering from bladder cancer). Studies have shown obese people, cigarette smokers, and people who prefer junk or processed food and intake very low amount of fruits and vegetable in diet are at a high risk of developing bladder cancer. Also people who are suffering from hematuria are at high risk of developing bladder cancer.

Along with the goup of people mentioned above, people who come into contact with minerals like iron, steel etc. and other cancer causing environmental toxic substances are also at the risk of developing bladder cancer.

What are the symptoms of bladder cancer?
There are quite a few symptoms of bladder cancer, which includes:
1) Patient cannot hold normal volume of urine and needs excrete it regularly.
2) Pain felt in areas close to the bladder such as pain in pelvis and also while urinating.
3) Sensation of burning when passing urine
4) Patient not being able to urinate even when they have the urge to.

How is bladder cancer diagnosed?
There are many ways to diagnose bladder cancer. Your doctor may first try to test your urine sample for infection and blood strains. Your doctor may suggest you to have a Cystoscopy to detect any abnormality inside the bladder. A Urogram (also known as Intravenous Pyelogram) can also be used to diagnose bladder cancer (In urogram, the patient is injected with a special type of die, which is further excreted from blood by kidney. This die is then examined through X-Ray scanning in order to find out any abnormality). Along with the above mentioned techniques, CT scan, MRI scans and few more techniques such as ultrasound imaging, and urine based tests are used to diagnose bladder cancer.

Bladder Cancer treatment:
Similar to most of the other types of cancers, surgery can be used to treat bladder cancer, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, medication, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, nutritional therapy, interferon/interleukin etc. Surgery (also known as Cystectomy) is used to remove the infected part of the bladder or entire bladder from the patient’s body (the organs removed in men during Cystectomy are bladder, prostate and lymph nodes and in women bladder, uterus and also some part of anterior vagina-wall are removed). Medication can be used to destroy the remaining infected cells and help the patient regain strength after surgery. The type and combination of different treatments to be followed will be decided by physician based on the stage bladder cancer is in and the complexity involved.

For the patients with bladder cancer in its retarded stage, Transuretral Resection (TUR) can also be used based on the different parameters. In this technique, the tumor on the wall of bladder is scrapped using resectoscope.

However, there are certain side effects of various treatments such as destruction of uninfected cells after radiotherapy; patient might experience lethargy due to high power medication etc. It is very important to pay attention to patient’s diet and take proper medication after the cancer treatment. Patient also needs to undergo bladder re-construction therapy after his/her infected bladder is removed.

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