Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Bladder Cancer

When diagnosed with bladder cancer, you may feel overwhelmed or even powerless and you have a lot on your mind with difficulty knowing from where to start. Not knowing what will happen causes , which is why it is said knowledge is power. >> Since every patient has a unique case, your doctors are your [...]

Bladder Cancer Alternative Treatments

Following are several new types of treatment that are now being studied for use against bladder cancer. Photodynamic therapy Also called as PDT it is a newer treatment method that may be useful in treating early stage bladder cancers and its usefulness is still being studied. In this treatment a special light sensitive drug is [...]

Bladder cancer testing

Genetic changes in bladder cancer Scientists have made great progress in learning about the differences between the normal cells and cancer cells and how these differences cause cells to grow too much and spread to other parts of the body. Several changes in the of bladder cancers have been found which have helped us understand [...]

Bladder Cancer Prevention

Bladder cancer cannot be prevented but bladder cancer prevention focuses on reducing or eliminating the risk factors that can be controlled form developing it. Some of the risk factors that can be controlled are: Tobacco use Occupational exposure to carcinogens Use of Aristocholia fangchi (a Chinese herb found in herbal weight-loss products) Healthy diet Tobacco [...]

Bladder Cancer Prognosis

A bladder cancer prognosis is a medical opinion as to the likely course and outcome of the disease. It is the chance that a patient will recover or have a recurrence of bladder cancer. Factors Influencing a Bladder Cancer Prognosis Factors affecting a bladder cancer prognosis include the type and location of the cancer, the [...]

Bladder Cancer Diagnosis

There are several diagnostic tools to establish a diagnosis of bladder cancer which includes radiology, cystoscopy and pathology. However, a definitive diagnosis of bladder cancer can only be made by a pathologist by examining bladder tissue. Following are the various diagnostic tools: Radiology An IVP (Intravenous pyelogram) is a conventional x-ray test which uses dye [...]

New cancer support group open to all types of cancer patients or survivors and those who support them

When a Killeen resident and licensed professional counselor Judy Steine was diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer the hospital got her in touch with a woman in Pennsylvania who’d survived the same cancer 15 years ago. While Steine went through treatments at Houston’s MD Anderson Hospital she said, “Having that was the biggest help to me”. [...]

New Study Revealing – Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Cells Can Become More Susceptible To Chemotherapy (Part 2)

Image Source : http://bit.ly/nLIej1 Ralph deVere White said, “We wanted to see, if you looked at the patient’s tissue before chemotherapy were there differentially expressed microRNAs in the patients who responded to the drugs versus those that didn’t respond.” The authors said, “The combined data indicate that the elevation of miR-34a expression levels prior to [...]

New Study Revealing – Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Cells Can Become More Susceptible To Chemotherapy (Part 1)

UC Davis Cancer Center conducted a research and discovered that sensitized muscle invasive bladder cancer cells can be eliminated by the lethal effects of chemotherapy. Even the current study has strengthened the belief that microRNA (short ribonucleic molecules) play significant roles in many deadliest types of cancer. The scientists report states that an increased production [...]

Bladder cancer stages and grade – 2

The M stages of bladder cancer - The “M” in the TNM system is used for cancer that has spread or metastasized to other parts of the body. As with most cancers, there are two stages for cancer; either the cancer has spread to another body organ or it hasn’t. If bladder cancer does spread [...]