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Preventative tests can help identify bladder pre-cancer and early bladder cancers when they are treatable. Women are less likely than men to be appropriately checked for bladder cancers when they test positive for blood in their urine according to a new study. Blood in your urine is called hematuria. If you can see it it is macroscopic, if you are told at the gyno office you have it, it's considered microscopic. The most common cause is bladder infection, but typically symptoms, positive bacterial cultures and other urine findings confirm the report. Many women will have appropriate testing for hematuria that is completely negative: nothing specific is ever found but random tests will show hematuria over weeks, months or years. Not everyone with hematuria will have a treatable disease. However there are a whole score of conditions that can lead to hematuria that should be investigated should you have this on testing. However at the American Urologic Society 2014 Annual Scientifi...

Done skip a urine test if you are having symptoms of a bladder infection. But realize there are other causes of the pain. Can pain with urination be a chlamydia infection? Where do you least expect a chlamydia infection? Your elbow, yep, it can be there, your eye, it can be there too. (Actually in the joint of your elbow, but you get the point!) But it's usually in the private parts that you expect. But what you don't expect is not to expect it. In other words, you just have to get tested as often there really are no symptoms at all. For instance with chlamydia infections of the urethra, or the tube coming from the bladder, the symptoms can be painful urination, but it may be no urine pain at all! And actually blood in the urine, called hematuria, usually means a regular bacterial type urinary tract infection. Hematuria, or blood in the urine usually excludes most urinary infections by the chlamydia organism. In fact asymptomatic urethral infections with chlamydia are so com...

When detected early, the prognosis for bladder cancer patients is excellent with the American Cancer Society stating that the early detection 5 year survival is 92%. Women are often diagnosed when the cancer is advanced and bladder cancer in women is more frequent and more deadly than cervical cancer. The symptoms can be deceiving and women can think they have cystitis or a urinary tract infection. Some individuals may have blood in their urine when they have bladder cancer, but the presence of blood may be intermittent and the amount of blood doesn’t correlate with the severity of the cancer. NMP22® BladderChek® is a simple, non-invasive test that provides a result in 30 minutes. Although bladder cancer has a high rate of recurrence, it is a very treatable disease. People at elevated risk for bladder cancer include smokers, menopausal women, individuals with chronic stones or urinary tract infections and those in certain high- risk occupations who have had chemical exposures. Women’...