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The main cause of bladder cancer recurrence

BY Ira Max 2020-07-21

  Bladder cancer is also called urothelial cancer. According to statistics, bladder cancer has been on a continuous upward trend. Generally, the elderly suffer from bladder cancer usually manifested as hematuria, urinary frequency, urgency, dysuria, urinary flow obstruction and other adverse symptoms. The disease can be cured simply by removing it, but many patients with bladder cancer have relapsed, so what is the main reason for the recurrence of bladder cancer?

  In clinical terms, bladder cancer is divided into non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer and muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer means that the tumor is limited to the mucosa and submucosa, while muscular invasive bladder cancer means that the tumor invades the muscular layer and the outer bladder structure. After surgical treatment of bladder cancer, for many patients, the first two Year is the peak period of relapse and metastasis, and relapse is more likely to occur.

   Many patients and their families don’t understand. Didn’t the patient have surgery, and the tumor was removed very cleanly, why do they relapse?

  Bladder The main reasons for cancer recurrence are as follows:

  1. Do not focus on consolidation treatment. Although surgery can quickly remove the lesions to control the disease, the surgery can only remove the visible lesions. Some cancer cells that cannot be seen with the naked eye or that cannot be detected by imaging. If you do not pay attention to follow-up treatment, recurrence is only a matter of time. It is recommended that you should not be careless after surgical treatment and should be consolidated in time. Reduce the chance of recurrence and metastasis.

  2. The disease was discovered relatively late. Many patients in the clinic found that the disease was in the middle and late stages, and the cancer cells had entered and exited or metastasized, or metastasized to a distant place. However, surgery belongs to local treatment, and the tumor cannot be removed radically. The patients still have different amounts of cancer tissue in the body. These patients often relapse soon after surgery.

  3. The patient’s poor living habits, especially some eating habits, thought that he would recover completely after the operation, so he ate and ate, drank, drank and stayed up late, which undoubtedly caused a relapse. Conditions, so it is recommended that even after recovery, patients should develop good habits to reduce the chance of recurrence. In fact, there are many factors that cause recurrence of bladder cancer. In addition to the above three aspects, patient care and mentality are all factors that cause relapse. Since bladder cancer is prone to recurrence, prevention work should be done to reduce the risk of recurrence. Including adherence to treatment.

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