Bladder cancer usually starts in the lining or inner layer of the bladder wall.
Cancer thin bladder wall.
Though it can occur at any age most people diagnosed with bladder cancer are older than 55.
Bladder cancer risk increases as you age.
Hi everyone my name is annette nickname snettie don t ask i was diagnosed with bladder cancer on march the 8th following a short period of gross heamaturia following the diagnosis on the 25th march 2011 i had my first turb.
Bladder cancer is the growth of abnormal or cancerous cells on the inner lining of the bladder wall.
We changed after the perforation and it has made so much difference to hubby s treatment plan.
Exposure to certain chemicals.
In either case the cancer is only in the inner lining layer of the bladder.
For some cases viruses may be the cause of these growths.
This early stage of bladder cancer is most often treated with transurethral resection turbt with fulguration followed by intravesical therapy within 24 hours.
A low grade tumor usually grows more slowly and is less likely to invade the muscular wall of the bladder than is a high grade tumor.
The cancer has grown through the inner lining of your bladder but not the muscle of your bladder wall nor has it spread to your lymph nodes or distant organs.
Most bladder cancers are detected at early stages when the tumor has not spread outside the bladder and treatments are successful.
The transitional epithelium on the picture is the lining layer where most bladder cancers start.
Advice please on superficial bladder cancer and thin bladder wall.
Invasive bladder tumors can range from t2 spread to the main muscle wall below the lining all the way to t4 tumor spreads beyond the bladder to nearby organs or the pelvic side wall.
Noncancerous benign tumors include papillomas.
Lymph node involvement ranges from n0 no cancer in lymph nodes to n3 cancer in many lymph nodes or in one or more bulky lymph nodes larger than 5 cm.
Men are more likely to develop bladder cancer than women are.
27 apr 2011 9 38 am.
Abnormal tissue growth in the bladder wall causes tumors to grow and the wall to thicken.
This type of cancer has cells that are closer in appearance and organization to normal cells well differentiated.
As the cancer grows through the layers of the bladder wall it becomes harder to treat.
Take care claire x.
I havent heard of a thin bladder wall making muscle invasion more likely and have also read that women s bladders are thinner in general.
