When Jodi Byfuglin, 56, was diagnosed with bladder cancer, it felt like cruel irony. Byfuglin had lost both her parents to cancer in their 50s, and as a single mother of two, she was all her kids had ...

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When your bladder is no longer able to do its job, surgically constructed pouches can be a viable substitute. One of the earliest of these is known as the Kock pouch (pronounced “coke” pouch). The ...

A continent urostomy is a type of urinary diversion surgery that may be recommended in cases where your bladder isn’t functioning normally due to injury or disease. Unlike other types of urostomies, ...

Dr. Janet Kukreja explains one urinary diversion option available to patients undergoing bladder removal. For patients with bladder cancer undergoing radical cystectomy, or the surgical removal of the ...

A cystectomy is a surgery to remove your bladder. The bladder can stretch or relax to hold about 2 cups of urine (pee). Cystectomy often treats bladder cancer. But bladder removal surgery can help ...

(COLORADO) — On Monday, July 28, football coach at the University of Colorado, Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders, announced he was diagnosed and treated for bladder cancer. What is bladder cancer, the ...

Dorothy De La Garza had frequent urinary tract infections. Then she was told she had "an overactive bladder." "Everyone assumes a woman is leaking because she's old," the 78-year-old from Austin said.

BEIJING, Sept. 24, 2020 -- Professor Niu Haitao with the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University performs a remote radical cystectomy on a patient 3,000 kilometers away with the help of a ...