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Bladder Cancer

Bladder Cancer Introduction
Bladder Cancer Treatment
Bladder Cancer Symptoms
Bladder Cancer Diagnosis
Bladder Cancer Staging

What is bladder cancer?

Bladder cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the bladder mucosa. It is the most common malignant tumor of the urinary system and one of the ten most common tumors of the whole body. Bladder cancer can occur at any age, even in children. Its incidence rate increases with age, and the high incidence age is 50 to 70. The incidence of bladder cancer in men is three to four times higher than that in women. According toworldcancer statistics, there will be approximately 573,000 new cases and 213,000 deaths in 2020. Malaysia has the third-highest bladder cancer mortality rate in Southeast Asia.

So can middle and late-staged bladder cancer be cured? Minimally invasive techniques with little side effects and trauma can help bladder cancer patients avoid surgical resection, avoid suffering from traditional radiotherapy, and effectively prolong the survival period.

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Bladder Cancer Traditional Treatment Methods

Surgical treatmentSurgery to remove cancerous tissue and clean cervical lymph nodes that may have metastasis.
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy for follicular adenocarcinoma.
chemotherapyOften used as palliative therapy for inoperable or distantly metastatic advanced cancer.
Chinese treatmentTraditional Chinese medicine therapy can inhibit the development of cancer, improve the immune function of patients with thyroid cancer, and reduce the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Bladder Cancer Treatment Technology

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Radiofrequency Ablation

Radiofrequency ablation, sometimes referred to as RFA, is a minimally invasive treatment for cancer. It is an image-guided technique that heats and destroys cancer cells.　Under the guidance of image,...

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DEB-TACE

Drug-eluting bead transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) is an interventional therapy used in tumor treatment. It is a tiny sphere made of polymers or ceramics with a certain range of siz...

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Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy, also named cryosurgery therapy or cryoablation, is a medical technique both ancient and modern....

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Particle Knife

Particle knife (also called 125I Seed Implants) is applied to a variety of primary and metastatic tumors nowadays. 125I seeds are some small iodine radioactive particles that can give off short-range γ...

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Nanoknife Technology

Nanoknife is a brand-new cutting-edge ablation technology for tumor treatment. It breaks the membrane of tumor cells with high voltage pulses from electrode probes, resulting in multiple irreversible n...

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Interventional Therapy

Interventional therapy is a mini-invasive therapy performed under the guidance of medical imaging equipments. With a 1-2 millimeter incision, paracentesis can be performed with the lead of medical imag...

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Combined Knife

Combined Knife, it’s not actual surgical knife, but a composite cryogenic freezing surgical system, which conduct cold and heat ablation treatment with liquid-nitrogen by one or more ablation needles...

Bladder Cancer Patients' Story

They come from different countries around the world, but they have experienced the same experience and endured the pain that cancer has brought to them. However, now, with the effective treatment and meticulous care of St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, they have rekindled their confidence in life and become anti-cancer fighters. Here, they share their anti-cancer experience, love and warmth with everyone.

Breast Cancer: Noraini; Malaysiamore than 5 years

lymphoma: Ina; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

rectal cancer: Nguyen Van Thanh; VietnamSurvive for more than 4 years

cervical cancer: Wei Ji; Indonesia

Esophageal cancer: PHAM DUC VIEN; VietnamSurvive for more than 2 years

Liver Cancer: Kaisone; LaosSurvive for 5 years

nasopharyngeal cancer: Mr. Tsang; Indonesia

Lung cancer: Ramli Rukiana; Indonesia

Lung Cancer: Ms. LEONG; MalaysiaMore than 1 year

Prostate cancer: Mr.TING; Malaysiamore than 1 year

MDT TEAM

: Song Shijun; Chief Expert of Oncology Department | Chief physician

: Peng Xiaochi; Director of Oncology Department | Chief Physician

: Dai Wenyan; Director of Oncology Department of Oncology, Director of Breast Cancer Center | Associate Chief Physician

: Ma Xiaoying; Director of Oncology Department | Associate Chief Physician

: Lin Jing; Deputy Director, International Oncology Ward | Attending Physician

: Wu Qingkai; Chief doctor | Attending Doctor

: Zhen Yanli; Director of Radiology Department | Associate Chief Physician

: Yin Pingshan; Distinguished expert of TCM Oncology | Chief Physician

: Zhao Yifan; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Qin Yubing; Attending physician ,Oncology Department | Attending physician

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Bladder Cancer Symptoms

What symptoms of bladder cancer present?

Blood in urine. Bloody urine mostly occurs as intermittent or throughout the whole process of disease. It can also appear at the onset or by the end of a case. Some patients would have blood clots or slough-like tissues in urine.

Irritation of bladder. A patient would present the symptoms of urination frequency and urgency if a malignancy occurs in trigonum vesicae, or the lesion spreads or infection happens.

Urinary obstruction. The bigger tumor located in bladder neck and blood clots can arouse dribble urination or even urine retention. Tumor infiltration in ureteric orifice causing blockage in upper urinary tract would develop lumbar pain, hydronephrosis and damage of kidney functions.

Metastases. Pains in bladder, urethrovaginal fistula, edema in lower extremities, etc appear when advanced stage cancer invades tissues or organs around bladder and pelvic lymph nodes.

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Bladder Cancer Diagnosis

Detection of bladder cancer

Cystoscope, through which can directly find the location, size, quantity, shape and infiltration extent of cancer. Biopsy should also perform when having this examination.

CT scan. It can find the tumor and swelling lymph nodes in an accuracy of 80%.

Ultrasound B. It can detect the size, location and infiltration degree in mucosa when a patient is having full bladder, a status that the mucosa of bladder wall is fully extending.

Ray contrast examination. Through it can a doctor know the bladder is full or empty and the infiltration condition. Combining with pyelography and ureterography, hydronephrosis and infiltration condition of ureter can be confirmed.

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Bladder Cancer Staging

Staging of urinary bladder cancer

Stage 0: Cancer cells are found only on the inner lining of the bladder.

Stage I: Cancer cells have proliferated to the layer beyond the inner lining of the urinary bladder but not to the muscles of the urinary bladder.

Stage II: Cancer cells have proliferated to the muscles in the bladder wall but not to the fatty tissue that surrounds the urinary bladder.

Stage III: Cancer cells have invaded to the fatty tissue surrounding the urinary bladder and to the prostate gland, vagina, or uterus, but not to the lymph nodes or other organs.

Stage IV: Cancer cells have spread to the lymph nodes, pelvic or abdominal wall, and/or other organs.

Recurrent: Cancer has recurred in the urinary bladder or in another nearby organ after having been treated.

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