Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Advance bladder cancer or prostate or urethra or kidney cancer

Advance bladder cancer or prostate or urethra or kidney cancer?
If all these cancers were advanced would they show up on a ct scan or MRI? Or if spreads bone mets?
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The first test performed in the case of bladder or urethral cancer is generally a urine test. Urine cytology - the examination of urine under a microscope - will then be performed to determine whether or not the sample contains cancerous or pre-malignant cells. If the sample contains any of these cells, you will then be referred to a urologist; he/she will then perform a procedure known as a cytoscopy - the insertion of a fibre optic camera into the urethra and bladder - in order to search for cancer cells. He/she will simultaneously perform a flourescence cytoscopy. This is done by introducing substances called porphyrins into the bladder; these chemicals will then cling to the cancer cells, so that when the urologist shines a blue light through the cytoscope, the cancer cells covered with porphyrins will glow, indicating where the cells are located. These will then be extracted and biopsied. Prostate cancer can be detected by either a digital rectal examination - a physical examination of the prostate in which the doctor feels the prostate gland via the anus - or a prostate specific antigen test - a blood test in which a doctor looks for abnormally high levels of prostate specific antigen, which may indicate prostate cancer. The only reliable test for kidney cancer is either an ultrasound or another medical imaging test. All of the above a detectable with a contrast CT or MRI examination. Bone metastases are detected by a test known as a bone study.
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dont ask questions if you have cancer. Euthanasia is Answer for Cancer.

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