Bladder cancer signs and symptoms may include.
Cancer of the bladder wall.
Frequent urination painful urination back pain.
A low grade tumor usually grows more slowly and is less likely to invade the muscular wall of the bladder than is a high grade tumor.
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.
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.
It hasn t spread to your lymph nodes or other organs.
Risk factors for bladder cancer include.
Non invasive cancers are only in the inner layer of cells the transitional epithelium.
It is usually discovered before it has spread past this lining.
Invasive cancers have grown into deeper layers of the bladder wall.
Bladder cancer begins in the inner lining of the bladder.
Bladder cancers are often described based on how far they have spread into the wall of the bladder.
Most bladder cancers more than 90 percent start from the transitional cells which occupy the innermost lining of the bladder wall.
They have not grown into the.
This type of cancer has cells that are closer in appearance and organization to normal cells well differentiated.
The cancer has only grown into the center of your bladder.
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.
It hasn t spread into the tissues or muscle of your bladder wall itself.
