Bladder cancer survival rates refer to the percentage of surviving up to a specific duration of time the moment your bladder cancer diagnosis is confirmed. Oftentimes, this is the first thing asked by the patients as soon as they're told of their disease. This is typical and as a medical practitioner, we are always ready to answer your questions and appropriately respond to your feeling of demise. However, before you start breaking down, there are several factors that influence your bladder cancer survival rate and by knowing them, you may easily know what things that could lower or increase your chances.
The following are some of the factors that greatly contribute to the decrease or increase of your bladder cancer survival rate.
Stage of Bladder Cancer
A standard survival rate chart for all cancer types is based on a survival period of 5 years. In many cases, patients who were diagnosed and treated at stages 0-1 are more likely to add 5 years more to their lives. At these stages, the bladder cancer survival rate can be as high as 98% and as low as 88%. Still, 88% is a lot higher than the survival rates for the rest of the stages. Like most cancer cases, your rate of survival may drastically go down as your disease progresses.
Treatment Regimen
Another element that may highly influence your rate of survival is the treatment plan you're about to undergo. A basic fact of medical treatment is that medical treatment is better than no treatment; however, no treatment is much better than the wrong one. In some cases, patients may be subjected to unnecessary treatment plan that may bring more chances of demise than curing the cancer. This is true for unseasoned surgeons and physicians. This is the reason why proper research is extremely necessary before entrusting yourself to an oncologist.
Accompanying Diseases
Most patients diagnosed with cancer are around 30-ish and above. A large portion of these patients are around 40 years of age. At this time, other diseases may already be experienced before the cancer is diagnosed and in some instances, these extra diseases are the main cause of the cancer. There are also recorded cases where it is not the cancer than led to the demise but the other disease, eg., Heart attack. Needless to say, the more diseases you have, the lesser chances for you to survive up to 5 years. Some doctors would even recommend that you lessen the severity of the other disease first before treatment proper for cancer is initiated. This is because chemotherapy or radiation therapy for cancer substantially lowers the immune system of a patient, thus, the patient is extremely vulnerable to getting more diseases or potentially increasing the severity of the other one.
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