Chief Coach Daine Sanders of the University of Colorado talks about his trip by defeating bladder cancer during a press conference at the Folsom Field Club in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, July 202. Credit – Photo from Aaron OnTiver Images
OOn July 28, the football coach of the University of Colorado Daine Sanders revealed that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer – but now, after treatment, it is considered cured.
“We’ll beat him, right?” Sanders, who is 57 years old, asked one of his doctors, Dr. Janet Kuzia, who appeared on stage with him at a press conference in Boulder. “It’s defeated,” she replied, later added that as an oncologist she did not “use” use [the word cure] slightly. “
The spotlight of the bladder cancer is “long overdue,” Kuzia said for a time after a press conference. (She is the Director of Urological Oncology at the Cu Center for CU Cancer at the University of Colorado Anshutz. “It is high time for people to recognize bladder cancer is a very serious cancer and a very common cancer.”
Here’s what you know about the disease, and what it is like to live with a restructured bladder.
Who is the most at risk of bladder cancer?
More than 80,000 new cases of bladder cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Commission. The disease is much more frequent in men than in women. “The male to female ratio is about 60% -70% of male up to 30% -40% women,” says Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg, Head of the Gennological Oncology Service at the Sloian Catering Cancer Memorial Center. “This is a big separation.”
Other common risk factors include smoking, exposure to certain industrial chemicals, older age and chronic irritation of the bladder and infections.
Sanders has publicly hinted at a health problem throughout the football outside the season, but so far it has not revealed the cause of his symptoms. He was diagnosed with a lot of risk without muscle invasive bladder cancer, confirmed Kukreja in time, which means that his disease was limited to the internal mucosa of the bladder and did not spread to the muscle layer or the rest of the body. “She was caught at the right time,” she says, noting that Sanders initially learned about him by accident from a subsequent CT scan that was related to vascular surgery. “It was not quite what someone thought it would come from it,” she says. “We usually don’t find it. We usually find it because people have blood in their urine.”
What is the operation to remove the bladder?
Some patients with bladder cancer choose intravesical therapy, which means that chemotherapy is administered directly to the bladder; Others take advantage of approaches as inhibitors of the immune control point or a combination of both. During the press conference, Sanders said he had chosen his tumor surgically removed, called cystectomy.
“Given his commitments to his family and the team, he chose to undergo the removal of the bladder,” Cukujor said during a press conference. “We have performed a complete removal of a laparoscopic bladder and the creation of a new bladder. And I am pleased to announce that the results of the surgery are that it is cured of cancer.”
There are several ways to reconstruct the bladder after removal, but the Sanders team has chosen a void in which part of the intestine is used to create a new bladder that is remarkably close to normal anatomy. Patients usually stay in the hospital for two to five days after surgery and then use a catheter for a few weeks before they start training their new bladder, says Kacaga. “When people are empty, they have to push their abdominal muscles as if they were sitting,” she says. “It’s not hard to learn – it’s just a new muscle memory. Most people can do it and do it well.”
About half of the people with a non -shallow bladder runs out at night, says Kuzia, which Sanders is openly talking about during a press conference. “It’s a completely different life,” he said. “Depending on depends … I can’t control my bladder.” At one point, he jokes that he may have to have a “side -line gate” on the games if he has to pee.
However, patients who choose the removal of the bladder tend to recover well after surgery. “Our surgeons here examined it, and about a year after the operation, the quality of life is most at the beginning in the most important ways,” says Rosenberg. “People can do almost anything they want to do in life, regardless of the type of urine reconstruction. This is a big change and not a trivial operation, but we hope that the healing operation is getting rid of the problem.”
Catching bladder cancer on time
During the press conference, Sanders urged people to pay attention to their own health and receive an examination if they notice something unusual. There is no screening test for bladder cancer, but experts agree that if you notice any blood in your urine, you should take it seriously and make a doctor.
“I can’t tell you how many times people come in and they say,” Well, a year ago I saw a little blood in my urine and she just went away. She was there for a day and she left, and I somehow let him go, “says Dr. Daniel M. Gain, Head of the Geniturine Department at the Fox Chase Cancer Center at the Cancer Cancer. “So now it’s six months or nine months later and this can be a great time with this disease.”
Most of the time there will be a cause without cancer, he adds, but even a fleeting day of bleeding calls for a proper evaluation. It’s not worth the risk, he emphasizes. “If you see blood in your urine, you should go to check it,” Gainisman says. “Don’t let it go. It’s not normal.”
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