The majority of bladder tumors have painless carnal hematuria or microscopic hematuria as the first symptom. Patients present with intermittent, full-blown hematuria, sometimes accompanied by blood clots. Sometimes the tumor is already large or advanced when carnal hematuria occurs. The treatment method of advanced bladder cancer is an important factor affecting how long one can live with advanced bladder cancer. Surgery alone is not enough to treat bladder cancer. Surgical treatment can only remove the solid tumor visible to the naked eye, but cannot prevent the metastasis of cancer cells, nor can it destroy the cancer cells in the blood in the body. The clinical treatment methods for advanced bladder cancer mainly include chemotherapy, radiotherapy and Chinese herbal medicine.
Chemotherapy is the main form of chemotherapy for advanced bladder cancer, which can shrink the cancer to a certain extent, but it will also increase the toxic side effects as the treatment time increases. Chemotherapy is usually combined with radiotherapy, which is more effective than radiotherapy or chemotherapy alone, but radiotherapy is less suitable for patients with poor physical function.
In advanced bladder cancer, there are multiple metastases and the patient’s immune function is low, so surgical treatment is limited. From the patient’s own perspective, Chinese medicine is the best choice to prolong survival on the basis of reducing the patient’s pain. Traditional Chinese medicine does not adopt radical treatment methods, but is mild enough for patients to tolerate, and it has good effect in suppressing tumor and improving patients’ immune function, so that patients’ own ability to resist tumor can be well repaired. Therefore, choosing traditional Chinese medicine for late bladder cancer treatment can give patients more treatment opportunities.
Establishing firm confidence and maintaining optimistic emotion are the keys to self-conditioning and recovery of bladder cancer. Some patients cannot withstand the mental and physical blows after the disease and never recover from it, while others are optimistic in spirit, brave enough to face the reality and actively cooperate with doctors to take effective treatment measures to support themselves through the difficulties. Bladder cancer, like all cancers, requires a long treatment and recovery period, and in the process of treatment, it is characterized by local recurrence and distant metastasis, the author has treated a patient with bladder cancer, although timely detection of local surgery. However, within three years, recurrent lesions appeared repeatedly, but the patient cooperated positively with the treatment and was cured clinically by various treatments such as surgery, electrocautery and local infusion chemotherapy.
Long-term local irritation of the bladder mucosa. Such as long-term chronic infection, chronic stimulation of bladder stones can induce bladder tumor. Moreover, adenoidal cystitis and mucosal leukoplakia are considered to be precancerous lesions and can induce cancer. In advanced stage, when tumor invades the tissues and organs around bladder or has pelvic lymph node metastasis, it leads to corresponding symptoms such as pain in bladder area, urethrovaginal fistula, lower limb edema, etc. In distant metastasis, it may also show impaired function of metastatic organs, bone pain and cachexia.