On the occasion of bladder cancer month, we take stock of this disease, which mainly affects men and smokers. But it is constantly progressing.
Urological cancer is the most common urinary cancer after prostate cancer. Bladder cancer affects nearly 20,000 new patients each year in France. and its progression is regular, as La Dépèche relates. “Catched in time, it is a cancer with a good prognosis, with more than 80% five-year survival”, insists urologist Benjamin Pradère, from the Croix-du-Sud clinic in Toulouse and member of the cancerology committee of the French Association of Urology (AFU). Because there is no mass screening campaign for bladder cancer. The first warning sign to take is the presence of blood in the urine, that is to say hematuria. “Seeing blood in your urine, even once, should absolutely lead to consultation” hammers the doctor. “A secondary warning sign is frequent urination and recurrent urinary tract infections”details the scientist.
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Bladder cancer: unmistakable signs
Indeed, if the patient suffers from inability to urinate or, on the contrary, frequent urge to go to the toilet, these are signs that should alert.
Bladder cancer can also cause persistent urinary burning and pain during urination, this being favored by smoking. Repeated urinary tract infections should also alert you. Signs that everyone should not take lightly, because the other particularity of this cancer is that it is painless, so it is difficult to see the first symptoms clearly. It is necessary to make a diagnosis by cystoscopy, an examination of the urethraunder local anesthesia, to confirm the presence of a tumour.