Disease Presentation
PT 2
Bladder Cancer
In known history of bladder cancer, it was researched by a German physician named Ludwig Rehn, and was known for over one hundred and fifty years ago. He investigated causes, symptoms, and other types of healing for the disease. He took part in identifying his research of urogenital react tumors where he became very skilled in. In 2010 another doctor named Dr. Elizabeth Guancial, she took Dr. Ludwig Rehn research and looked far more into detail that she received an award for Bladder Cancer Research. Bladder cancer is one of the most diagnosed cancers in the world. In theory, about 71,000 people will develop bladder cancer each year, and more than 12,000 of them will die because this disease. It is said to be the most common in Caucasian males rather than in any other race. National Cancer Institute is shown that this will happen in most men than women at the age of 40 or older. As this develop, not many will know they have bladder cancer until symptoms is shown in the test. To obtain this disease it is linked to smoking, radiation, chemical exposure, and maybe a long line in history in family of cancer. In the family, it does not have to be just bladder cancer it can be all sorts of type of cancer. In that case bladder cancer will affect the bladder walls and the urination tracks if not caught on time. This will cause blood in the urine, frequent urination, painful urination, back pain, and pelvic pains. It can spread through the fatty tissue where it can reach to other organs like the lungs, liver, (in men) the prostate, (in women) the uterus, and the women vagina. The determination of its effect is by knowing how it will affect the person and where it will spread if not treated. It can be surgically removing the tumor (in early stage), removing part of the bladder if the tumor is out of the bladder detrusor muscle (middle stage), or removing the entire bladder creating a new way for the urine to