Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer is a malignancy that develops in the membrane that lines the inside of the bladder.  Bladder cancer occurs when some normal cells in the bladder begin to transform and divide in an uncontrolled manner to become cancerous.  

Your body is constantly attacked by internal and external aggressions that impact the life of your cells. Certain pathogenic attacks are carcinogenic; they cause some cells to mutate. If your immune system is healthy, it will fight back the aggressor, and stops the mutation of those damaged cells. If the defense mechanisms of your body are not able to destroy the diseased cells, their number continues to grow to form cancer. 

At early stages, the cancer cells locate within the bladder. Over time, however, the cancer will invade surrounding tissues and destroy them. Without medical intervention to slow their progression, cancer cells will travel through the bloodstream to reach other parts of the body far distant from the bladder, usually regional lymph nodes, bones, lungs, skin and the liver. This condition is called metastatic bladder cancer.  

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