Bladder Cancer Diagnosis
How to diagnose bladder cancer?
Early symptoms of bladder cancer
For bladder cancer, initial indications of the diagnosis from the medical history, medical examination of the kidneys, lower abdomen and the internal reproductive organs, and an ultrasound examination of the lower abdominal region, the bladder and kidneys. Professionals for bladder cancer are urologists. For history taking, your doctor will ask you some important questions in order to support the diagnosis of bladder cancer:
- Since when is blood in the urine to see?
- Are you experiencing pain and if so, when?
- Has something changed when urination?
- Whether you have pre-existing conditions? (eg, a chronic bladder infection or Kidney disease)?
- Are there existence of risk factors for bladder cancer (eg smoking or occupational contact with certain chemicals)?
With a urine test strips, a blood admixture can be confirmed.
The most important test for bladder cancer is cystoscopy. Under local anesthesia (lubricant with anesthetic effect), the doctor gently pushes a thin, soft, flexible tube (endoscope) through the urethra into the bladder. The investigation is pain-free to a large extent. Via the tube with built-in optical instruments, the physician can scan the bladder mucosa piece by piece for suspicious sites (places), and if necessary, can remove tissue samples with small pliers for biopsies.
Article From: Bladdercancersymptoms.org
Created: 2011-12-24
Last update: 2012-02-21