Coping with... BLADDER CANCER
Jul 08, 2020
4 minutes
Bladder cancer is the 10th most common cancer in the UK, affecting 10,000 people every year, mostly men, as they are more likely to have been at risk.
The significant risk factors associated with developing bladder cancer are exposure to harmful substances such as smoking and certain manufacturing chemicals – such as some dyes, paints, rubbers and plastics used in the past but now banned. Smoking is thought to be the biggest risk factor, responsible for a third of bladder cancers, making smokers four times more likely to develop it than non-smokers. Toxic chemicals are absorbed into the blood and then filtered by
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