How malignant is bladder cancer

How malignant bladder cancer is is mainly based on the patient’s tumor stage and whether it has metastasized. Early bladder cancer has relatively low malignancy; advanced bladder cancer has relatively high malignancy.
1. Early stage bladder cancer: bladder cancer is a malignant tumor originated from the bladder. Early stage bladder cancer has superficial tumor, no distant metastasis and relatively low malignancy. As long as timely and effective treatment is provided, a better prognosis can be achieved.
2. Advanced bladder cancer: If the patient has advanced bladder cancer with local infiltration or distant metastasis, the degree of malignancy is relatively high. Patients need to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy in time to improve the quality of life and prolong the survival period.
Clinically, bladder cancer mainly manifests as hematuria, bladder irritation sign, urinary flow obstruction symptom and other manifestations, and patients can confirm the diagnosis through physical examination, laboratory examination, imaging examination and other tests. Bladder cancer patients should pay attention to nutritional matching in their diet, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables with high protein and vitamin, and avoid spicy and stimulating food.
Once patients are diagnosed with bladder cancer, it is recommended to go to urology department of local hospitals for examination in time and give standardized treatment.