The impact of bladder cancer in pregnant women on the fetus

What effect will bladder cancer have on the fetus when pregnant? I believe that many female friends are concerned about this issue. If they have bladder cancer and are of childbearing age, they certainly hope to have a healthy baby. So can this wish be realized? Let's take a look at the experts' introduction:

Experts said that if the cancer cells in the bladder cancer patient's body have not metastasized, and such cancer cells are only concentrated in a local part of the bladder, then the bladder cancer patient still has relevant fertility function at this time. Is fertility also a great risk for bladder cancer patients?

As the pregnancy period lengthens, the uterus will become heavily congested, and the mother's nutrition will not only nourish the baby, but also provide nutrition to the cancer cells, causing the cancerous site to grow rapidly. In addition, pregnancy will aggravate the symptoms of bladder cancer, causing patients to miss early treatment or causing treatment to be blocked. This is because changes in human hormone secretion during pregnancy can stimulate and promote cancer. Childbirth and breastfeeding may also cause bladder cancer cells to spread and metastasize, further threatening the patient's life.

Bladder cancer patients should not get pregnant before they are fully recovered. Giving birth will affect the patient's nutrition and physical strength. If the patient still needs intermittent maintenance treatment, most of the drugs are cytotoxic drugs that are toxic to the fetus, which will cause fetal deformity, miscarriage, and premature birth. If you are already pregnant, you should try to terminate the pregnancy as soon as possible. Clinical data have shown that pregnancy can promote the recurrence and metastasis of bladder cancer, and also bring many difficulties to treatment, affecting the efficacy.

If the patient is still in the early stages of pregnancy when she finds out she is pregnant, she should choose to have an abortion. If the pregnancy has reached the middle stage, the pregnancy should be terminated based on the principle of protecting the mother, and then other treatments should be continued. If the patient discovers the pregnancy late and has missed the best time for an abortion, and the patient herself strongly demands a childbirth, she can consider giving birth, but she must go to a professional hospital for delivery, and the patient and fetus should be closely monitored during the birthing process to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

However, it is generally better for women with bladder cancer not to have children, so as to avoid disrupting the endocrine system and disturbing the patient's health. Some patients are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, in which case the pregnancy should be terminated quickly to protect the pregnant woman and treat bladder cancer as soon as possible; if the birth is imminent, induced labor or cesarean section can also be performed, and then the bladder cancer can be treated.

In general, can women with bladder cancer have children? It is generally better not to have children. Having children is not good for the patient. It may also cause the disease to progress rapidly during pregnancy, which will affect the entire treatment process and even the patient's recovery progress. For the future, female bladder cancer patients should seize the opportunity for treatment and not have children.