Cancer Outside The Bladder Wall

Bladder cancer signs and symptoms may include.

Cancer outside the bladder wall.

This test uses sound waves to make pictures of the organs inside your body like your bladder and kidneys. Bladder cancers tumors are staged from stage i through stage iv. 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. In stage ii cancer has spread to the muscle wall of the bladder.

Mri scans can be very helpful in finding cancer that has spread outside the bladder. 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. N is used to describe whether cancer has spread into lymph nodes near the bladder. Cancer occurs in the bladders inner lining but not to muscular bladder wall stage ii.

M metastasized doctors use this to describe whether the disease has spread into organs or lymph nodes that. It can help show the size of a bladder cancer and if it has spread. Cancer has spread to the bladder wall. Cancer has spread to fatty tissue around the bladder and possibly certain.

In stage iv the cancer has metastasized from the bladder to the lymph nodes or to other organs or bones. In stage iii the cancer has spread to the fatty tissue outside the bladder muscle. Cancer is through the bladder wall and into surrounding tissue. Stages ii to iv denote invasive cancer.

Cancer invades the muscular bladder wall but goes no further stage iii. Blood in urine hematuria which may cause urine to appear bright red or cola colored though sometimes the urine appears normal and blood is. It was a small cell carcinoma. A bone scan can help show if bladder cancer has spread to the bones.

This test is not done unless you have bone pain. Although urothelial carcinomas bladder cancers always start at the inner lining of the bladder as they grow they can burrow deeper and enlarge within or through the wall of the bladder while not increasing in size within the cavity of the bladder.