There are 5 symptoms of bladder cancer. If you have more than 3 of them, it means the tumor is growing too fast.

Bladder cancer refers to a malignant tumor that originates in the bladder. Bladder cancer occurs in men over the age of 50, and the cause is still unclear. However, it is generally believed to be related to long-term exposure to certain chemical carcinogens, improper diet, long-term smoking, and chronic infection.

Once you have bladder cancer, if you don't treat it early, the cancer cells will spread rapidly and the patient will lose the best treatment time. Therefore, it is important to find the early symptoms of bladder cancer. What symptoms will patients experience after suffering from bladder cancer? The following is an introduction to you, hoping to arouse your vigilance.

1. Painless hematuria

Painless hematuria is an obvious early symptom of bladder cancer. During the process of excreting hematuria, the patient does not feel any pain or other discomfort. This phenomenon is intermittent and continuous, and can last for several days or months. In the early stage of the disease, the interval between symptoms of painless hematuria is longer, but as the disease progresses, the interval will become shorter and shorter. In addition, after taking some anti-inflammatory drugs, these symptoms will be alleviated or disappear, and some patients will stop hematuria on their own.

2. Difficulty urinating

If the tumor grows in the bladder trigone or near the bladder neck, it will cause difficulty in urination. As the tumor grows, large pieces of its own tissue will fall off, and these necrotic tissues and blood vessels will block the bladder meridian, causing difficulty in urination. There will also be symptoms of urinary retention.

3. Lower abdominal pain

In the early stages of the disease, patients do not feel pain in the lower abdomen. However, as the tumor grows, it invades surrounding tissues, causing pain in the lower abdomen. This pain is not particularly obvious. It is usually bloating and pain in the early stages, accompanied by urgency, frequent urination, and a swollen lower abdomen.

4. Low back pain

When symptoms of lower abdominal pain occur, the patient will also have lower back pain. The cause of low back pain is that the tumor invades one side of the ureteral opening, causing water accumulation in the kidney, leading to low back pain. In the early stage, it is usually a mild dull pain. As the disease progresses, the degree of hydronephrosis will worsen, and this dull low back pain will develop into severe pain.

5. Symptoms of malignant consumption

Once a bladder cancer patient develops a series of malignant consumption symptoms, it indicates that the tumor is growing rapidly and there are metabolic problems. As the tumor grows further, it will consume too many nutrients in the patient's body, leading to a series of phenomena such as some infection symptoms or impaired kidney function. These symptoms will cause the patient's appetite to drop rapidly, leading to a series of problems such as malnutrition, weight loss, fatigue, anemia, etc.

In summary, after suffering from bladder cancer, patients will experience the above 5 symptoms. Especially when symptoms such as waist and abdominal pain and weight loss occur, it means that the tumor grows too fast. If no treatment is given at this time, cancer cells will spread and metastasize rapidly in a short period of time, directly threatening the patient's life. Therefore, if the above symptoms occur in daily life, you must go to the urology department of a regular hospital for examination. Then give appropriate treatment according to the cause of the disease to maximize the patient's health and life.