Cancer Of The Bladder Wall

It hasn t spread to your lymph nodes or other organs.

Cancer of the bladder wall.

Non invasive cancers are only in the inner layer of cells the transitional epithelium. Invasive cancers have grown into deeper layers of the bladder wall. There are different types of bladder cancer. They have not grown into the.

Blood in urine hematuria which may cause urine to appear bright red or cola colored though sometimes the urine. This type of cancer has cells that are closer in appearance and organization to normal cells well differentiated. Frequent urination painful urination back pain. Bladder cancer begins in the inner lining of the bladder.

It hasn t spread into the tissues or muscle of your bladder wall itself. Urothelial carcinoma formally known as transitional cell carcinoma is the most common form of bladder cancer 80 90 and starts in the urothelial cells in the bladder wall s innermost layer squamous cell carcinoma 1 2 begins in the thin flat cells that line the bladder. Cancer causing substances such as tobacco smoke and chemicals in the environment. The cancer cell type can be transitional cell carcinoma squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma each named for the types of cells that line the wall of the bladder where the cancer originates.

Bladder cancers are often described based on how far they have spread into the wall of the bladder. The cancer has only grown into the center of your bladder. Most bladder cancers more than 90 percent start from the transitional cells which occupy the innermost lining of the bladder wall. Risk factors for bladder cancer include.

Bladder cancer is an uncontrolled abnormal growth and multiplication of cells in the urinary bladder which have broken free from the normal mechanisms that keep uncontrolled cell growth in check.