Cancer has reached the muscle of the bladder wall.
Cancer outside the bladder wall.
For patients with metastatic disease at presentation or those in which bladder cancer cells are present outside the bladder wall or in lymph nodes during radical cystectomy systemic usually intravenous chemotherapy is the treatment of choice.
In stage iv the cancer has metastasized from the bladder to the lymph nodes or to other organs or bones.
It was a small cell carcinoma.
But my daughter saw a urologist who did a blue light cystoscopy which showed 2 spots on the inside of the bladder which were not muscle invasive.
Mri scans can be very helpful in finding cancer that has spread outside the bladder.
Cancer has spread to the bladder wall.
A bone scan can help show if bladder cancer has spread to the bones.
Bladder cancer signs and symptoms may include.
This test is not done unless you have bone pain.
Although urothelial carcinomas bladder cancers always start at the inner lining of the bladder as they grow they can burrow deeper and enlarge within or through the wall of the bladder while not increasing in size within the cavity of the bladder.
During the surgery the surgeon saw a spot on the outside of her bladder so he removed it and biopsied it.
Bladder cancers tumors are staged from stage i through stage iv.
N is used to describe whether cancer has spread into lymph nodes near the bladder.
Stages ii to iv denote invasive cancer.
This test uses sound waves to make pictures of the organs inside your body like your bladder and kidneys.
In stage iii the cancer has spread to the fatty tissue outside the bladder muscle.
In stage ii cancer has spread to the muscle wall of the bladder.
Cancer invades the muscular bladder wall but goes no further stage iii.
Cancer occurs in the bladders inner lining but not to muscular bladder wall stage ii.
It can help show the size of a bladder cancer and if it has spread.
Cancer is through the bladder wall and into surrounding tissue.
M metastasized doctors use this to describe whether the disease has spread into organs or lymph nodes that.
