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What is the treatment for bladder cancer?
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09/02/2024
Dr Rob explains all you need to know about bladder cancer including signs, symptoms and treatment.
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My name is Professor Robert Thomas. I'm a consultant oncologist specialising in
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urological malignancies. Now the treatment for early bladder cancer is
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primarily surgical. The urological surgeon will remove the tumour through a
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cystoscope, then after that install a form of chemotherapy called mycomycin C
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into the bladder. The sample is then sent to the pathologist and if indeed it is
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confirmed to be a cancer and it hasn't grown through the muscle wall so it's an
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early bladder cancer, the treatment then consists of six weekly infusions, either
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of a form of chemotherapy called mycomycin C or something called BCG
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which is actually a TB vaccination. The patient has to come into a room very
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much like this and have a catheter inserted into the bladder and then
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usually a highly qualified urology nurse will make up the solution, inject it into
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the bladder and it has to stay there for, if it's BCG, two hours or mycomycin C,
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one hour. So the procedure goes very much like this. This catheter which is
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very small diameter goes in to the bladder, usually with some lubrication to
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ease it. Most often a local anaesthetic is not used but I've been reassured that
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it's not too uncomfortable and then the BCG or the mycomycin C is connected to
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this apparatus and it is primed with some liquid to dilute it and then this
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is injected through the catheter into the bladder and then after that the
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catheter is usually removed and the infusion stays in the bladder for about
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two hours and then it's just passed normally. With the catheter removed the
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patient is asked to move about so the liquid swills around into the hole of
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the inside of the bladder and then it's just passed normally. After treatment
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there's usually some cystitis which can be uncomfortable for many men or women
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and this goes on weekly for six weeks and then that's the end of the initial
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treatment. Of course the patient needs to come back for regular check-ups to make
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sure the tumour doesn't come back but fortunately with early bladder cancer,
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especially if they're of a lower grade, the chance of relapse is very small.
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