How dangerous is the disease that artist Xuan Hieu has struggled with for the past year?

saxophone artist Xuan Hieu has been fighting cancer for over a year. Urinary cancer has now spread to the bone to the pelvis and spine.

The urinary tract cancer that artist Xuan Hieu suffered from was a malignant disease. The disease forms in organs of the urinary system such as the kidneys, urethra, bladder, urethra, etc. Urinary cancer is closely related to bladder cancer.

In Vietnam, there are about 1,502 new cases and 883 deaths from bladder cancer each year.

Many unexpected reasons

According to doctors, there are many factors that increase the risk of urinary tract diseases such as:

Pollution: People who live in environmentally polluted with industrial waste or toxic chemicals for long periods of time are at higher risk of getting sick than others.

Urinary cancer is a phenomenon in which organs in the urinary system have malignant tumors

Smoking: According to research, up to 60 - 70% of people with urinary tract cancer are related to smoking.

Genetic factors: People with a family history of urinary tract cancer are at higher risk of developing the disease than those without family factors.

Overuse of painkillers: Up to 8% of cases of long-term use of painkillers containing phenacetine will have urinary tract cancer.

Warning symptoms of urinary tract cancer

Normally, when suffering from urinary tract cancer, the patient will see symptoms such as:

Burning pain when urinating: When suffering from urinary tract cancer, the patient will have symptoms of frequent urination, continuous urinary union pain, unresolved urination, pain when urinating.

Urinary bleeding: If the tumor in the urinary tract is inflamed, the patient may urinate in the blood, the amount of blood that may be excreted may be large or small depending on the condition of the ulcer. Blood in urine is difficult to observe with the naked eye.

When suffering from urinary tract cancer, patients will experience symptoms such as burning pain when urinating or burning pain when diarrhea occurs

Urinary tract blockage: The large tumor will press on the bladder and urine tract, causing the bladder to be stimulated, making it difficult for urine to circulate. At this time, the patient will have symptoms of difficulty urinating, interrupted urination, blockage of the urine tract, and urinary tract but not urine.

Back pain, severe hip pain: Signs of back pain, hip pain will appear when the tumor encroaches on the urinary tract, urine cannot be excreted and refluxes from the bladder to the kidneys, causing kidney damage, kidney damage and even extremely dangerous kidney failure.

pain when bowel movements: When the urinary urethra grows large, it will squeeze into the rectum, making it difficult for the patient to walk on the rectum, consume or bleed rectally during bowel movements.

Blood in the stools: For men, if they have urinary tract cancer, it will affect the stools, and the stools will have blood. The amount of blood in the stool is high or low depending on the disease condition and physical condition of each person.