Symptoms of advanced bladder cancer

If bladder cancer is not discovered and treated in time, it can easily develop to the late stage. At this time, the occurrence of the disease brings great pain to the patient, and some corresponding symptoms will also appear in the body. However, many patients do not understand the symptoms of bladder cancer in the middle and late stages, which will cause the patient's condition to worsen, thereby endangering the patient's life and health. Bladder cancer is very common now. When you have bladder cancer, you must treat it as soon as possible, otherwise the mortality rate is very high. Especially for patients with bladder cancer, once it reaches the late stage, you must pay more attention at this stage, especially the treatment method must not be carried out blindly. 10% of bladder cancer patients may first experience bladder irritation symptoms, manifested as frequent urination, urgency, pain and difficulty urinating, and the patients do not have obvious macroscopic hematuria.

Can bladder tumors be detected by CT scan?

If the diameter of the bladder tumor is less than 0.5 cm, the resolution of B-ultrasound is limited. When doing bladder CT, the bladder must be fully filled, so that the examination effect will be better. The best way to check bladder tumors is to do cystoscopy, which can directly observe the location, size, number, shape of the tumor, whether there is a pedicle, whether there is infiltration at the base, etc. Bladder tumor CT can show that bladder tumors can be divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors.

Treatment options for bladder cancer

The history of surgical treatment of bladder cancer is very early, and in the past, surgical treatment of bladder cancer could be cured. However, times are changing, and the pathology of the disease is also undergoing earth-shaking changes. More methods of treating bladder cancer have been developed to bring good news to people. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the tumor stage, malignancy, pathological type, tumor size, location, and whether it involves adjacent organs, the following three surgical methods are available: (1) Local resection and electrocautery of bladder tumors, mostly performed through cystoscopy. The early symptoms of bladder cancer in women are usually because the patient has a combined infection, which causes the tumor to rupture and cause bladder muscle spasms, resulting in dysuria, urinary retention, and local pain.