What are the treatments for bladder cancer?

What are the treatments for bladder cancer? Bladder cancer mostly occurs on the inner wall of the bladder. The age of onset is middle-aged and elderly people. Its onset is related to exposure to chemical carcinogens such as 2-tetramethylamine (contained in tobacco) and benzidine. There are usually no obvious symptoms in the early stage. Once painful or painless hematuria, frequent urination, urgency, urinary pain or lower abdominal distension and pain, and difficulty urinating appear, the course of the disease has entered the middle and late stages. The choice of treatment for bladder cancer has a great impact on the condition.

Bladder cancer develops rapidly, is highly invasive, metastasizes early, and has a high clinical stage (71% above T3). Surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc., as classic and effective methods, have achieved undoubted brilliant achievements in treatment. Unfortunately, these effective therapies have great clinical limitations due to their harm to the body. Even the use of chemical drugs for bladder instillation cannot fundamentally solve the metastasis and recurrence of tumors.

Bladder cancer is usually treated with surgical resection, radiotherapy, systemic chemotherapy, and traditional Chinese medicine.

Bladder cancer is usually treated surgically in the early stage. The lesions are surgically removed. Other treatments can be combined after surgery. Bladder cancer is generally not very effective in radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In the early stage after surgery, Chinese medicine is usually used to prevent the recurrence and metastasis of bladder cancer.

Most bladder cancers are already in the middle or late stages once they are discovered. There is a lack of effective treatment measures for patients with bladder cancer in the middle or late stages with local or distant metastasis. Surgery is difficult, and even if surgical resection is performed, the prognosis is often poor. It is difficult to perform surgical treatment in the middle and late stages. Although the main treatment for bladder cancer is surgery, chemotherapy will be used. A reasonable chemotherapy regimen will be selected according to the metastasis situation and combined with the use of radiotherapy. Infusion chemotherapy is a commonly used treatment method in clinical practice, and it is effective in alleviating symptoms and improving the quality of life of bladder cancer patients.

There is no good way to treat bladder cancer in Western medicine. If surgery is not possible, the situation will only get worse. Traditional Chinese medicine is still effective in treating bladder cancer. Huang Pei, an expert with special allowance from the State Council, affirms that the therapeutic effect of ginsenoside Rh2, a Chinese herbal medicine ginseng essence extract, on bladder cancer is worthy of recognition. Studies have shown that ginsenoside Rh2 has a significant inhibitory effect on bladder cancer cells, inducing differentiation and apoptosis of bladder cancer cells, improving the patient's immune status, and improving the quality of life. The combined use after surgery and during chemotherapy also significantly improved the effect. In clinical practice, ginsenoside Rh2 will be more widely used in the treatment of bladder cancer.

Bladder cancer develops rapidly, is highly invasive, and metastasizes to distant sites early. Surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc., as classic and effective methods, have undoubtedly achieved brilliant results in treatment. Unfortunately, these effective therapies have great clinical limitations due to their harm to the body. Even the use of chemical drugs for bladder instillation cannot fundamentally solve the metastasis and recurrence of tumors. The emergence of ginsenoside Rh2 brings good news to more patients.