Could blood in urine be bladder cancer?

Bladder cancer presents painless hematuria as the first symptom. If the patient has painless hematuria, he should go to a regular hospital for examination as soon as possible. B-ultrasound and CT scans can be performed. If necessary, cystoscopy can be performed. Under the microscope, the situation in the bladder can be seen. If a malignant tumor is highly suspected, tissue can be taken for pathological examination. When the bladder cancer mass increases significantly and the tumor ruptures and bleeds, clinical symptoms of urinary bleeding appear. If there is a mass in the bladder and hematuria occurs, in most cases it is caused by bladder cancer.

Are there targeted drugs for bladder cancer?

Bladder cancer can usually be effectively diagnosed by cystoscopy, which can detect the location, number, size, shape, presence of pedicles, and width of the base of bladder tumors, and can achieve early detection of bladder cancer. At the same time, cystoscopy can be used for pathological examination. Bladder cancer detected early can be treated with transurethral bladder tumor resection, and the surgical effect is very good. Most of them have an effective five-year survival rate of more than 70%. In recent years, due to the continuous development of new drugs, targeted drugs have begun to appear for bladder cancer. For example, erdafitinib, which targets FGFR2 mutations, has been found to have a certain degree of effectiveness in clinical trials abroad, and the effectiveness is not much worse than chemotherapy. It should be pointed out that there are many treatment options for bladder cancer.

What are the treatment options for bladder cancer?

For muscle-invasive bladder cancer, the first choice is radical cystectomy. For patients with poor physical fitness and inability to tolerate surgery, partial cystectomy or radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, etc. can also be considered. The treatment method for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer is generally radical cystectomy and urinary diversion. Bladder cancer is a malignant tumor disease. Bladder cancer can cause painless macroscopic hematuria, and the frequency is multiple.