Next to breast or prostate cancer, it is a forgotten relation of oncology, as it is so poorly known. However, with 13,000 to 20,000 new patients each year in France, the burden of bladder cancer is far from negligible. "It must be detected as soon as possible, it is a curable cancer when it is caught in time," warned Dr. Benjamin Pradere, urologist in Toulouse at the launch of the bladder cancer awareness campaign launched by the French Association of Urology. In practice, when cancer is treated at an early stage, 80% of patients survive. But if they are treated when the cancer has already metastasized, the 5-year survival rate is only 5%. But it is still necessary to know the warning signals.
This was not the case for Bernard, a 69-year-old from Toulouse. "Before I was diagnosed, I had never heard of bladder cancer," he recalls. "I didn't expect it at all. I thought I had...
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