Bladder Cancer Prognosis

Question: what is the prognosis for bladder cancer?

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Question: does bladder cancer usually have a good prognosis??

Answer: Yes, the vast majority of bladder cancers have a very good prognosis. It is very uncommon to see someone with a really advanced bladder cancer or to see a patient die from it. On the down side however, they often recur, but can sometimes take years to advance very little. It is not unusual to see patients undergo several bladder surgeries and never have lymph nodes tested as it is usually confined to the bladder. Radiological tests are sometimes ordered if the cancer invades deep muscle.

Question: I want to ask one more question about bladder cancer. Any doctors or nurses or any medical poeple on here now? I am almost 39 and female and have bladder cancer. I have very high epithial cells in my urine 100 percent of the time and no infection as infections have been ruled out. So what I want to know is do high epithital cells cause tumours in the body anywhere:? becasue I have a large tumou in in my right leg the size of a golf ball and is hard and at times is painfull. I also have a tumour in my left lypm node in my right groin too. I go back to the doctor and the hospital the specialits who only comes in once per week to get my prognosis. I have never smoked in my life, and for most of my life I have been very fit and healthy. So what I need to know is can white cells which are epithital cells that are very high like mine casue tumours anywhere in the body? My mother who is an RN said tonight that they can. I do not get much blood in the urine now like i have for 12 months of and on seen and unseen but lots of white epithital cells in the urine and on the cytoscopy. The hospital rang me on Monday this week and wants me to come in next week to dicuss the prognisis of my cancer. anyway please help me if you can and please tell me if the cancer has spread to other organs will the chemo be less effective. I have never had chemo before I have only found out about this when the hosptial called 2 days ago They will be soon. Next week I will be going to see me about that. The blood in the urine has stoped for now. But I may have chemo. The tumours are starting to pop up in differnet parts of the body and I never expected that

Answer: First, of all; my heart goes out to your misfortune of having this treacherous disease of bladder cancer.at a very young age. Bladder cancers are rare in people younger than 40 yrs. In a healthy female; the presence of epithelial cells which comes from the bladder lining-( sloughing off) in the urine is usually insignificant and do not cause the metastasis. Your bladder cancer might be a a tumor categorized as low-stage (superficial) originating in the transitional epithelial cells (called transitional cell carcinoma; TCC. or even SCC. When cancer occurs in the bladder, it usually begins growing within the bladder's inner lining, which is composed of specialized expanding and deflating cells known as transitional cells. From here, the cancer may spread deeper into the lining, extend into the bladder's muscular wall, and eventually invade nearby reproductive organs, abdominal tissues, the pelvis (hip bones), and lymph nodes. Although most bladder cancers are slow-growing, once they have spread to the bladder's muscular tissue, they often metastasize to sites such as the lungs, liver, bone, or lymph nodes. If the tumor has spread outside of the bladder to surrounding tissues, the patient may experience pelvic pain. In addition, metastases from a bladder cancer may cause secondary symptoms, such as bone pain at the site of the new cancer or leg edema (swelling) due to involvement of the lymph nodes. I hope you'll find the sites below useful: http://www.drrajmd.com/conditions/bladde… http://www.drrajmd.com/conditions/bladde… For the staging of Bladder Cancer : http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/t… http://www.oncologychannel.com/bladderca… Metastatic adenocarcinoma is a rare bladder tumor caused by cancer cells that have broken off from a primary cancer somewhere else in the body. The most likely primary cancer sites are the rectum (lower large intestine), stomach, endometrium (lining of the womb), breast, prostate, lung, and ovary. Before metastatic adenocarcinoma is treated, the patient must be evaluated to detect the primary cancer and any other metastatic tumors that may be present. So I strongly suggest to you to ask your oncologist to try to do a biopsy of the tumor in the right leg to see if it's the same type of cancer and try to determine the primary site before any chemotherapy. Chemotherapy will destroy any floating cancer cells esp if it has metastasize to the lymphatic system as in your case. To answer your additional details. You should immediately ask the oncologist to commence chemotherapy as the cancer is metastasizing fast.Stage IV. Hematuria and pains are strong symptom of bladder. cancer You should ask for a total body CAT SCAN. as I strongly suspect that your bladder cancer is just a secondary site.

Question: Hysterectomy leaving ovaries.6 ultrasounds showed no sign of them. Now have gallbladder cancer.Any correlation Could the ovaries that were supposed to be left have caused gall bladder cancer and if not, why did I have to be one of the 2 in 100,000 to end up like this? What is known of gall bladder cancer? My daughter now knows 3 women including me who are suffering from it when it was removed using laparoscopic surgery. Could a big incision have prevented the cancer from spreading to my abdomen? Don't know my prognosis. Can you help?

Answer: leaving your ovaries had nothing to do with gallbladder cancer. Also the incision size has nothing to do with it either.