How long can you live after bladder cancer surgery

Bladder cancer is a very common disease in urology. Patients with this disease will have intermittent hematuria clinically, so they must be treated in time. If it continues for a long time, anemia will occur. So how long can a patient live after complete bladder cancer resection?

Bladder cancer patients need to have their entire bladder removed, which is done only in the middle and late stages. Generally, only palliative local resection is sufficient. If the entire bladder is removed, an artificial bladder must be found to replace it. Although surgery is the main way to treat limited-stage bladder cancer, transurethral bladder tumor resection is the preferred treatment for bladder cancer. It is based on the specific tumor stage and pathological grade, and different intravesical instillation chemotherapy or immunotherapy regimens are used after surgery . After total bladder removal, the general survival period is only three to five years.

After the bladder is completely removed, since the bladder is necessary, an artificial bladder is needed to maintain the patient's normal bladder function. The artificial bladder is expensive and is not affordable for the average patient's family. Tumors are also classified as chronic diseases, and chronic diseases are collectively referred to as diseases of the rich, so the average family basically cannot afford it.