Cancer is a disease that has plagued the world, long before it was even discovered and given its name.
According to the world’s leading online research centre Wikipedia, Cancer is a group of diseases involving an abnormal cell growth, with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Medical practitioners have found Tobacco to be the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths. Another 10% are due to obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity, and excessive drinking of alcohol. Other factors may also include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation and environmental pollutants.
Many cancerous growths can be prevented by not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, not drinking too much alcohol, eating plenty of veggies, fruits and whole grain meals, vaccination against certain infectious diseases, maintaining a clean and hygienic environment, not eating too much processed and red meat.
There are activities we engage in daily that may put us in danger of cancer, activities that may have over time become a part of our daily lives. It is your duty to keep your health in check, go for checkups regularly, eat well, detox also and monitor your health progress.
And if by any means there is cancer growing in your body, early detection is the best chance you’ve got at getting rid of it.
Bladder cancer is any of several types of cancer arising from the tissues of the urinary bladder. This cancer typically affects older adults. It’s usually diagnosed early, when it’s still treatable.
The most common symptom is the presence of blood in the urine.
It’s likely to recur, so follow-up tests are typically recommended.
Treatments include surgery, biological therapy and chemotherapy.
In Nigeria, there are less than a hundred thousand cases per year.
Symptoms and Signs of Bladder Cancer
People with bladder cancer may experience the following symptoms or signs. ‘May,’ because sometimes people with bladder cancer do not have any of these changes or the cause of a symptom may be another medical condition that is not cancer.
- Blood or blood clots in the urine
- Pain or burning sensation during urination
- Frequent urination
- Feeling the need to urinate many times throughout the night
- Feeling the need to urinate, but not being able to pass urine
- Lower back pain on 1 side of the body
More often than not, bladder cancer is diagnosed after a person tells his or her doctor about blood spottings in their urine, also called
Hematuria. Other times, the patient may experience what is called ‘Gross hematuria’, which means that enough blood is present in the urine that the patient can see it.
The doctor may prescribe urine tests, but these are not used to make a specific diagnosis of bladder cancer because hematuria can be a sign of several other conditions that are not cancer, such as an infection or kidney stones.
So it is advisable that when you perceive or see these changes in your body, you speak to your doctor, who will ask you several questions and prescribe tests for you in other to diagnose the main causes of the symptoms you’ve been experiencing.
