Treatments for some of the most common bladder cancers

After suffering from bladder cancer, it is the most important thing for every patient to receive timely treatment for bladder cancer, but you must be cautious when choosing a treatment method, because inappropriate bladder cancer treatment methods will aggravate the condition and cause serious harm to the patient. What are the common treatment methods for bladder cancer ? The following will tell you about the common treatment methods for bladder cancer.

In general, common treatments for bladder cancer include:

1. Comprehensive treatment: Comprehensive treatment with bladder preservation refers to any treatment method that attempts to preserve the bladder of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer to avoid cystectomy. There are many ways to preserve the bladder, and most of them are based on comprehensive treatment with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and transurethral bladder tumor resection. This is a common treatment method for bladder cancer.

2. Surgical treatment: Surgery is also a common treatment for bladder cancer. Transurethral bladder tumor resection is the first choice for superficial (non-muscle-invasive) bladder cancer. Different intravesical instillation chemotherapy or immunotherapy regimens are used after surgery according to the specific tumor stage and pathological grade. Radical cystectomy is the first choice for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Systemic chemotherapy can be used selectively before and after surgery to improve the efficacy.

3. Drug treatment: Bladder urothelial carcinoma is more sensitive to chemotherapy. For early non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, intracavitary chemotherapy or immunotherapy can be used after transurethral surgery to reduce the postoperative recurrence rate and delay tumor progression, which has a good therapeutic effect on bladder cancer.

4. Systemic chemotherapy: Chemotherapy is most commonly used for metastatic bladder cancer or locally advanced bladder cancer that cannot be removed surgically. It is also a common treatment for bladder cancer. About 20% of bladder cancers can be cured by chemotherapy. For these patients, imaging tests such as CT scans can be used to determine the efficacy.

The above is a description of the common treatment methods for bladder cancer. I hope it will be helpful to everyone. Patients should choose the appropriate treatment method for bladder cancer based on the doctor's advice and their actual condition. Do not choose blindly, which is not good for the condition.