Bladder Cancer Questions

1. What is fluid in the abdomen associated with bladder cancer called?

   I am sorry for the loss of your father.
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2. Can chemotherapy and radiation cause a skin rash?

   Many chemotherapy medications can include side effects related to skin changes. It sounds like your husband’s physician is treating the rash, but as you described it is not working.
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3. My father needs to stay away from my mother with his cigarette smoke, but he refuses. How do we make him understand?

   Chances are, your dad will not listen to logic, nor will he change his highly-addictive habit of smoking. Would he be willing to have the window cracked or the door opened while he does?
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4. How long can my Mom live with stage 4 metastatic bladder cancer?

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5. What is a BCG treatment?

   Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)treatment is grouped with in cancer immunotherapy treatments. Cancer immunotherapy is an approach for treating cancer using our own immune system to fight the disease. Although the mechanism of BCG remains unclear, it appears that it stimulates an immune response or causes...
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6. My father has bladder cancer and he no longer want to eat or drink. Is there anything we can do?

   Loss of appetite is a common side effect of both cancer and cancer treatment. It can also be a sign that a patient is nearing the end of his life and is ready to begin letting go.
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7. What actors have died of bladder cancer?

   Ray Bolger and Frank Sinatra were two actors with bladder cancer who've died from the disease. (Sinatra also had complications from Alzheimer’s and a stroke.) In addition to actors with bladder cancer, writer Dominick Dunne, filmmaker Aaron Russo, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey also died of the e illness...
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8. What is aggressive bladder cancer?

   I recently had to study up on aggressive bladder cancer. Most bladder cancer is superficial, meaning that the tumors don't spread at all, or stay confined within the deep muscle wall of the bladder. Aggressive bladder cancer can spread to other parts of the body and may reoccur, making it more difficult to treat...
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9. Which artificial sweetener was linked to bladder cancer?

   In the early 1970s, studies investigating artificial sweetener linked to bladder cancer showed a possible connection in lab rats between the disease and saccharin. However, further research found that these results applied only to rats, especially male ones, and that the animals had to consume high doses of saccharin for the cancer to occur...
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10. How do I avoid bladder cancer?

    Avoiding bladder cancer is tricky, since no one knows for sure what causes it in the first place. For now there’s no real way to prevent the disease, but certain things do seem to lower your risk:
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11. Is bladder cancer fatal?

    Is bladder cancer fatal? Sometimes. According to the National Cancer Institute, nearly 71,000 men and women in the U.S. were estimated to get bladder cancer in 2009, and 14,330 men and women would die from it. Men die more from the disease than women do, and white people die slightly more than African...
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12. Is bladder cancer related to prostate cancer?

    Bladder Cancer and Prostate Cancer are not related even though they carry some of the same symptoms like blood in urine. Bladder Cancer is usually gives people the urgency to urinate while Prostate Cancer makes it difficult and slows down the flow. Both types of cancers affect men and early testing is a great precaution that all men should take...
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13. How many people die from bladder cancer each year?

    Per the National Cancer Institute, estimated new cases of bladder cancer in the United States in 2010 will be 70,530. Estimated deaths from bladder cancer over the same year will be 14,680. Bladder cancer is responsible for 7% of all newly-diagnosed cancer in men; it accounts for 2% of newly-diagnosed cancer in women...
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14. What causes bladder cancer DEHP?

    Scientists have not found the exact causes for bladder cancer as of yet. However, they have identified several carcinogens that are potential causes, especially in cigarette smoke. Smoking can have devastating affects on the body and, unfortunately smokers run more than twice the risk of developing bladder cancer that those that do not smoke...
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15. When was bladder cancer first discovered?

    It has been known for over one hundred and fifty years, when it was originally researched by a German physician known as Ludwig Rehn. He investigated causes, symptoms, and a lot of types of treatment for the disease. He was well known for involvement in the research of urogenital tract tumors...
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16. Is bladder cancer hereditary?

    Like many other cancers, bladder cancer is hereditary. While family history is less of a factor in bladder cancer than some other cancers, it is still something to be mindful of when considering a patient’s history. But heredity is often not the chief cause of bladder canc...
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17. What does an indeterminate cytology for bladder cancer mean?

    Indeterminate cytology means it's not obvious to the doctor that a tumor is cancerous or not cancerous. This usually means the doctor needs to run additional tests to determine whether or not the tumor is cancerous or not cancerous. Patients given a diagnosis of indeterminate cytology who don't smoke...
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18. What are the statistics of bladder cancer recurrence?

    Out of all cancers bladder cancer actually has the highest chance of recurrence. If a person starts out with a form of bladder cancer that is not very serious they have a great chance of developing cancer of the bladder again. Unfortunatly, if a person has had bladder cancer there is almost an eighty percent chance of them getting it again in the future...
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19. Are bladder infections after bladder cancer surgery common?

    Bladder infections are not common after bladder cancer surgery, as the bladder is removed during surgery. Since the replacement bladder is not actually constructed of tissue, there is no risk of infection in the bladder itself. As with all surgeries, however, there is a risk of infection at the site of the wound...
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20. What is a CBF for bladder cancer?

    CBF means cystoscopy with bladder fulguration, although more commonly known as TURB or TURB-t (Transurethric resection of bladder tumors), is done for very early stage bladder tumors.
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