The symptoms of urinary bladder cancer are often similar to those of less-threatening conditions like a urinary tract infection. The main bladder cancer sign is blood in your urine, but other symptoms include peeing more than usual, pain or burning when passing urine, feeling the urge to pee ...
Squamous cells appear in your bladder as a response to infection or irritation. Gradually, these can become cancerous. Squamous cell bladder cancer is rarely seen in the United States. It is more common in regions where a parasitic infection (schistosomiasis) is a prevalent cause of bladder infe...
Bladder cancer tends to return in people who have had the disease.Symptoms of bladder cancerMany people with bladder cancer have no symptoms. Instead, the diagnosis is made when red blood cells are detected in a urine sample. However, people with bladder cancer often don't see blood in ...
Medical illustrations help explain bladder cancer in this WebMD slideshow. See the warning signs, causes, treatments, and prognosis for bladder cancer.
Drugs used in immunotherapy for urinary bladder cancer are Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and interferon alfa-2b (Intron A). Know the Types, Causes, Symptoms, Stages, Treatment-TUR Surgery, Immunotherapy.
Survival from bladder cancer in males and females. Full size image When women were categorised according to whether they were from less deprived (quintiles 1+2) or more deprived areas (the remaining quintiles), the 6-month survival was 73.5% for the less deprived compared with 52.3% for the...
underlying disease of the bladder. It is more correctly known as urinary or vesical (bladder)tenesmus. Although the causes of thisbladder fullness sensationis largely the same for both males and females, there are some conditions which are specific to each gender that results in this abnormal ...
Nine patients died of cancer. The median survival after the diagnosis of UR was 6 months. CONCLUSIONS UR after RC with an orthotopic neobladder in females is rare. Solitary, noninvasive recurrences have a favorable prognosis when detected early. Invasive recurrences are often associated with local...
(SUI,n = 10), bladder cancer (n = 12), bladder and bowel dysfunction (BBD,n = 3), kidney stone (n = 1), interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS,n = 1), pelvic organ prolapse (POP,n = 5), or unknown urinary tract symptoms (n = 3)...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in females, accounting for over 6 million patient visits to physicians per year in the United States. Cystitis (bladder infection) represents the majority of these infections (see the image below).