Even her family doctor may think the same. This is the reason why bladder cancers tend to be diagnosed much later in women than in men. Even though only 1 in 4 bladder cancer sufferers are women, the chance of women being diagnosed with advanced bladder cancers are significantly higher than in men. Women tend to put up with bladder symptoms much longer before they seek medical attention.
Family physicians also tend to refer their female patients with urinary symptoms much later than in their men patients. Some patients and primary physicans even have the false impression that only men have bladder cancers. Here are some of the more significant symptoms for patients to be alerted about the possibility of bladder cancer:
- Blood in the urine being the more predominant symptom that urinary urgency, frequency and pain.
- Passage of clots in urine.
- Persistent or recurrent symptom of blood in urine.
- Persistent urgency and urinary frequency in the absence of bacteria growing in the urine culture.
