Prolife Cancer Centre – Urinary Bladder Cancer Treatment in Pune

Smoking : Smoking cigarettes, cigars or pipes may raise the risk of bladder cancer by producing harmful elements to grow in the urine

Increasing age : Bladder cancer risk rises as you age. Bladder cancer can occur at any age, but it’s rarely seen in people younger than 40.

Being white : White people have a higher risk of bladder cancer than do people of other races.

Being a man. Men are more likely to grow bladder cancer than women are.

Chronic bladder inflammation : Chronic or repeated urinary infections or inflammations, such as might occur with long-term use of a urinary catheter, may raise the risk of a squamous cell bladder cancer.

Exposure to certain chemicals : Your kidneys play a key role in filtering toxic substances from your bloodstream and pushing them into your bladder. Because of this, it’s thought that being around certain elements may raise the risk of bladder cancer.

Family History: Having a family history of bladder cancer increases the risk of bladder cancer.

Many people with bladder cancer can have blood in their urine, but no discomfort while urinating. Some symptoms might indicate bladder cancer like weakness, weight loss, and bone tenderness, and these can indicate more difficult diseases. You should pay particular attention to the following signs:

If your doctor finds something different in screening or you have any of the signs of Bladder cancer, further tests will be required to diagnose the condition.

Determining the extent of the cancer

After verifying that you have bladder cancer, your surgeon may recommend further tests to determine whether your cancer has grown to your lymph nodes or other regions of your body.

Tests may include:

• CT scans
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Bone scan
• Chest X-ray

Your surgeon can rate bladder cancer with a staging system that goes from stages 0 to 4 to recognize how far the cancer has grown. The stages of bladder cancer mean the following:

• Stage 0 – bladder cancer hasn’t reached past the lining of the bladder.
• Stage 1 – bladder cancer has reached past the lining of the bladder, but it hasn’t reached the layer of tissue in the bladder.
• Stage 2– bladder cancer has grown to the layer of muscle in the bladder.
• Stage 3 – bladder cancer has developed into the tissues that surround the bladder.
• Stage 4 – bladder cancer has grown past the bladder in the nearby regions of the body.

Surgery
Transurethral resection of bladder tumor is the most common surgery for bladder cancer that’s in the beginning stages. This method is done in a hospital.
Your doctor will put a tool called a resectoscope into your bladder through your urethra. That’s the tube that urine flows through when you go to the toilet. The resectoscope has a wire loop at the end. Your surgeon will use it to remove abnormal tissues. If you still have cancer after the tumor is removed, your surgeon can destroy it using a laser and another tool called a cystoscope.

Radiation
This method involves using high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells. It’s a lot like getting an X-ray only much more effective. It doesn’t harm. You might require to get radiation 5 days a week for several weeks.
Your surgeon may suggest it for one of the following reasons:
• You have early-stage bladder cancer
• You have early-stage cancer, but can’t have surgery
• As a follow-up to TURBT removal surgery
• To prevent or treat the signs of advanced bladder cancer

Chemotherapy
Your doctor will give you chemo through an IV. That means the medicine travels through your bloodstream to other portions of your body. It can destroy cancer cells that may have grown beyond your bladder.

Targeted therapy
It uses drugs that hit certain genes on tumor cells to destroy cancer. This treatment limits damage to the healthy cells in your body, which can occur with radiation or chemotherapy.
Your surgeon will decide which drug is best for you by examining cells from your tumor first.

Surgeons can treat Bladder Cancer with surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and drugs. The treatment you get will depend on:

With Laparoscopic surgery, Prolife offers the best Urinary Bladder Cancer Treatment in Pune. Our globally renowned team of physicians shows your treatment for the most benefit while reducing the impact on your body.

Dr. Sumit Shah is expertise in treating bladder Cancer that has spread to other sections of the body. We offer Laparoscopic surgery program & as well as chemotherapy and targeted therapy options.