The cancer is in the bladder rectum or organs far from the uterus such as the lungs.
Cancer outside the bladder wall.
The cancer has spread to the bladder or rectum and possibly nearby lymph nodes.
It was a small cell carcinoma.
Over time they can spread deeper into the other layers.
Stages ii to iv denote invasive cancer.
Urothelial cancer can happen in the kidneys and ureters too but it s much more common in the bladder.
For patients with metastatic disease at presentation or those in which bladder cancer cells are present outside the bladder wall or in lymph nodes during radical cystectomy systemic usually intravenous chemotherapy is the treatment of choice.
But my daughter saw a urologist who did a blue light cystoscopy which showed 2 spots on the inside of the bladder which were not muscle invasive.
Bladder cancer most often begins in the cells urothelial cells that line the inside of your bladder.
T4 means cancer has grown outside the bladder or into the prostate womb or vagina or into the wall of the pelvis the area between the hip bones or tummy abdomen your doctor also looks at.
In stage ii cancer has spread to the muscle wall of the bladder.
Urothelial cells are also found in your kidneys and the tubes ureters that connect the kidneys to the bladder.
Next is a thick layer of muscle.
In stage iii the cancer has spread to the fatty tissue outside the bladder muscle.
Beneath the urothelium is a thin layer of connective tissue blood vessels and nerves.
The transitional epithelium on the picture is the lining layer where most bladder cancers start.
During the surgery the surgeon saw a spot on the outside of her bladder so he removed it and biopsied it.
In stage iv the cancer has metastasized from the bladder to the lymph nodes or to other organs or bones.
Nearly all bladder cancers start in the lining or urothelium.
Whether cancer has spread to any lymph nodes this is called the n stage.
The median ageof diagnosis is 69 for men and 71 for women.
Low grade bladder cancer is less likelythan high grade bladder cancer to spread into the muscle wall of the bladder and beyond.
The surgeon was 100 sure his words that he got it all.
Outside of this muscle a layer of fatty connective tissue separates the bladder from other nearby organs.