With seven thousand new patients per year, bladder cancer is number 5 in the top 10 of most common cancers. Despite this, relatively little attention is paid to bladder cancer, according to the urologists. There is no population screening, such as for breast, cervical and colon cancer, and there are no large collection campaigns, such as for pancreatic cancer. That is why they argue for more attention for bladder cancer.
Quit smoking
Smokers are three times more likely to develop bladder cancer than non-smokers. Zuiverloon and Boormans therefore urge everyone to stop smoking, so that fewer people develop bladder cancer in the long run. Or that it will at least be discovered sooner. “Many people know that smoking causes lung cancer, but hardly anyone realizes that you can also get bladder cancer from it.”
The urologists work in the Bladder Cancer Center, which was established a few years ago by the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute. The center does a lot of research, because bladder cancer is a capricious disease about which much is still unclear. The research is funded by the Make Cancer Kansloos campaign of the Erasmus MC Foundation – Daniel den Hoed Fund.
Bladder Cancer Month
May is the month in which attention is drawn to bladder cancer. Erasmus MC wants to create more awareness for the disease by means of a projection on the building.
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