How long can an elderly person with bladder cancer live

How long can an elderly person live with bladder cancer?

Some patients have reached the late stage and have already had many metastases and invaded other organs. Surgery cannot completely cure them, but they also need chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which may take 1 to 2 years, so everyone's survival period is different. The 5-year survival rate after radiotherapy can reach about 10%.

The cause of death of patients is mostly due to bladder cancer metastasis and invasion of other organs, including renal failure. For the elderly, physical fitness is indeed not suitable for surgery.

What should I pay attention to after bladder cancer surgery?

Bladder cancer is a common malignant tumor in the urinary system. The treatment plan is mainly determined by the patient's clinical symptoms and diagnostic stage.

For postoperative patients, bladder instillation chemotherapy or systemic intravenous chemotherapy is mainly performed to reduce the recurrence rate of tumors, and regular review should be paid attention to. This is because the wound has not healed completely. Bladder cancer patients should be provided with a good diet, and they should maintain nutritious, easily digestible, high-protein, and high-vitamin foods.

What items should be reviewed after bladder cancer surgery?

Patients with bladder instillation should also undergo cystoscopy, which mainly includes routine blood and urine tests and blood and urine tests, ultrasound or CT. Even for some patients suspected of distant metastasis, a comprehensive systemic examination should be given, even the most advanced PET-CT examination, to detect relatively hidden small lesions. If discovered in time, they can be treated in time to prevent recurrence.