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MediFocus Guides Help Answer Key Questions about Bladder Cancer:
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What are the standard treatments for Bladder Cancer?
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What are your treatment options?
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Are there any promising new and effective treatments on the horizon?
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Where can you find the doctors, hospitals, and medical centers with specialized interest and expertise in Bladder Cancer?
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Which organizations and support groups can help you cope more effectively with Bladder Cancer?
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Medifocus Guidebook:
Bladder Cancer
Updated: December 16, 2008
129 Pages
- Comprehensive overview of
Bladder Cancer
- Explore your treatment options
- Learn about new developments
- Read medical journal abstracts
- Find doctors, hospitals, research centers
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Introduction
When bladder cancer is found and treated early, the chances of survival are very good, with an approximate 94% five-year survival rate for early bladder cancer. Risk factors for bladder cancer include smoking (causes one-third of bladder cancers), occupational exposure to carcinogens, age, race (Caucasians are at highest risk), age, chronic bladder problems and a history of bladder cancer.
Bladder cancer's staging, treatment and prognosis depends on how deeply it has invaded the organ. At diagnosis, 90% of cases are Transitional Cell Carcinomas (in the three outer layers of the organ) within which 75% are superficial. Only 5 to 8% of cases are squamous cell carcinomas that are likely to invade deeper layers, and only 2% are adenocarcinomas, which are very likely to invade deeper layers. Such invasive bladder cancers may spread outside the bladder and affect other organs. Early diagnosis is extremely important in this disease.
Symptoms - such as blood in the urine (hematuria), lower abdominal pain, urinary frequency, bladder irriration, fever and weight loss - can mimic those of common, benign conditions, but hematuria should always raise suspicions until a diagnosis is confirmed.
The choice of treatment for you or your loved one depends on the stage of the disease, the presence of frailty or other medical conditions (given that bladder cancer more commonly affects older people), how aggressive the disease seems to be and the person's preferences. Treatment usually consists of a combination of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy.
The MediFocus Guidebook on Bladder Cancer contains information that is vital to anyone who has been diagnosed with this condition.
You will learn about the causes, risk factors, common signs and symptoms, medical tests that are used to establish the diagnosis, and standard treatments. You will also learn about the latest clinical advances in the management of Bladder Cancer as well as about the newest treatment options that are available.
The MediFocus Guidebook on Bladder Cancer will also inform you about important new, exciting research in the area of Bladder Cancer. You will also learn about the doctors, hospitals, and medical centers that are at the leading edge in conducting clinical research about Bladder Cancer.
Information about clinical trials, quality of life issues, a list of questions to ask your doctor, and a useful directory of organizations and support groups that can help patients with Bladder Cancer complete this valuable Guidebook.
You won't find this combination of information anywhere else. It is easily accessible right here. We invite you to preview the MediFocus Guidebook on Bladder Cancer so that you can decide if this comprehensive, trustworthy information may help you or someone you care about who has been diagnosed with Bladder Cancer.
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