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I understand that we do not have a good bio marker for testing bladder cancer
and 80% of bladder cancer patients find out the bladder cancer by experiencing
gross hematuria or blood in urine. I am one of them. I wish someone can develop a cost effective and accurate test to detect bladder cancer in much early stage. If that can be applied to anyone, especially men over 50, I believe we can save lives and difficult journeys many BC patients go through.I do not understand much about medicine especially cancer. So, I do not know if the following article is relevant to BC, but if someone in our medical board can tell us if it is relevant.
Joey
Hi Joey
This study is early stages and although it is a tool for many cancers it could in the long term be very beneficial as a tool in the detection of bladder cancer among many other types of cancer.
Currently the only early procedure that may detect bladder cancer is a urine cytology test, some what like a PSA test for prostate cancer. Both tests are not 100% in detecting cancer but do indicate that further tests may be required.
Thanks to our medical research board for their prompt reply.
JackHi Jack:
That was one topic that came up in the bladder cancer study that I’m involved with. Many people expressed their concern that there isn’t a definitive screening test for bladder cancer as of yet. At the very least I think everyone should be regularly screened for blood in the urine and if it is flagged then a physician should take it seriously and order further investigative testing. More cases would be caught earlier and more people would keep their bladders, overall saving the health care system some money. I hope the think tank research bodies can come up with something in the near future.
Thanks Jack and Marysue to follow up this subject so soon. Also I appreciate very much for the medical board for responding. It tells me that people who leads BCC really cares about BC and its patients. As I said my medical knowledge is very limited except I have learned alot from BCC and being a BC patient. But, I know a little about nano world as I used to work in the semiconductor industry which is now into 10nm feature size. So, the research was interesting as nano technology can be used for detection of cancer, likely of BC.
I know it comes down to cost vs benifits issue but if there are no definite biomaker for BC, why not recommending Cysto for people over 50 every so many years?
The reason why I say that in Japan and Korea, stomach cancer is #1 cancer. So, in Japan people over 40,50 will have regular endoscopic procedure to look inside stomach. According to Japan Cancer Center stats, the 5 year suvival rate of Stage 1 cancer is over 97%. In England, according to cancer research uk. org in 2014,
6600+ found stomach cancer and 4400+ died from stomach cancer, resulting the survival rate to be 15%. Granted that statistics can be interpreted in many ways and
stomach cancer is 16th most commom cancer, I guess not much focused in England. If BC costs most among cancers even if #5 or #6 in the list, implement Cysto check up more frequently may save the cost i healthcare and saves BC paitients. I wonder if anyone has done a study from that angle.
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