How long can you live with early stage bladder cancer

How long can a patient with early bladder cancer live? How long a bladder cancer patient lives depends on three factors. It is related to the patient's physical function, the chosen treatment method, and postoperative care. Therefore, during the treatment process, the patient must start from these three aspects and focus on the treatment plan.

People think that if they have bladder cancer, death is not far away. In fact, this is unscientific. Bladder cancer is not as terrible as people imagine. The survival time of bladder cancer patients is closely related to the treatment of modern medicine and the patient's mentality. The following introduces the influencing factors. After understanding them, we hope to provide some help to the treatment of the majority of patients and overcome various difficulties in the treatment process.

How long can you live with bladder cancer? Related factors:

It is related to the patient's physical function. Only with good physical function and strong immunity can one resist the development of cancer and tolerate various drug treatments. Therefore, improving immune function and enhancing resistance to tumors is extremely important for bladder cancer patients, especially those in the middle and late stages. In terms of diet, bladder cancer patients should eat more foods that have the effect of enhancing the body's immunity and resisting lung cancer, such as coix seed, yam, jujube, astragalus, American ginseng, etc.; they should eat foods that reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy: mushrooms, longan, etc. In addition, many Chinese medicines have the effect of enhancing immunity. Therefore, if bladder cancer patients want to live longer, they can also rely on taking Chinese medicine with anti-tumor and strengthening effects.

How long can bladder cancer patients live? Related factors 2:

It is related to the treatment method chosen. If surgical treatment is chosen, the recurrence rate within two years is high, and radiotherapy and chemotherapy bring great pain to patients. After bladder cancer patients choose surgical treatment, doctors can only conservatively tell patients that there is a 5-year survival rate for bladder cancer patients. If they choose Chinese medicine treatment, they can have a longer survival period and will not relapse for at least 15 years.

How long can you live with bladder cancer? Related factors 3:

1. Provide patients with information about the tumor and emotional support. For patients who undergo total cystectomy, urinary tract diversion and reconstruction, the necessity of the surgery should be explained, and if the diversion is handled properly, it will not affect their daily life and work, so as to strengthen their confidence in the treatment.

2. For patients undergoing urinary tract diversion, start preparing the intestines 3 days before surgery. Change to a low-residue semi-liquid diet, and change to a liquid diet 1 day before surgery. Take 1g of streptomycin twice a day, and supplement with vitamin K. Perform low-pressure saline enema every day, and clean enema the night before surgery until the discharge is clear.

3. Closely observe the condition after surgery to prevent and early detect bleeding and shock.