Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Have you noticed blood in your urine? The Qatari Ministry of Health has stated, through its official Instagram account, that this is one of the many symptoms of bladder cancer.
And the Qatar Ministry of Health has revealed other symptoms that could be the cause of your bladder cancer. Which are the most important?
- Feeling the urgent need to empty the bladder of urine
- Feeling of pain when emptying the bladder of urine
- Low back pain, especially on one side of the body
- Loss of appetite
- Unexplained decrease in body weight
- swollen feet
- Feeling of pain in the bones
There are several types of urinary tract cancers, which can have similar symptoms. Thus, the Qatari Ministry of Health explained, via Instagram, the difference between each of them.
Urinary tract cancers include:
testicular cancer
- A lump or tumor in the testicle
- Enlarged kidney size
- Feeling of abnormal heaviness in the scrotum
- Feeling of pain in the testicle or testicular scrotum
- Feeling of pain in the area between the thighs or in the lower abdomen
Prostate cancer
- Difficulty urinating
- Slow and interrupted urine flow
- Urinate more frequently than normal
- Feeling that the bladder has not emptied completely and urine is dripping after urinating
- Urinary incontinence
Kidney cancer
- Presence of blood in the urine
- Lower back pain just below the ribs
- Feeling of general tiredness
- body weight loss
- heat intermittently
