Archive for August, 2014

When bladder cancer leads to the removal of the bladder, a new way must be provided for urine to exit. After a urostomy, the urine will be leaving the body via a stoma which is a small opening that doctors create during the surgery. The urine will be draining into the urostomy bag.

Some of these treatments are standard while others are currently being tested by researchers in clinical trials. Clinical trials aim at improving the existing treatments and obtaining more info about cancer treatment.

American Cancer Society notes that 1 in 27 men will develop bladder cancer eventually and the risk of woman in a lifetime of getting the cancer stands at 1 per every 85.

The overall survival rate improved by about 25 percent with this treatment in comparison with the observation alone for periampullary adenocarcinoma once adjustments were made for the independent prognostic factors, i.e. p= 0.03.

Pancreatic cancer patients suffer greatly from reduced appetite. In most cases, the symptoms of the cancer are responsible for this while treatments could also be the cause at other times.