elp if you notice any warning signs.
Bladder cancer survivors have spokem out on the ‘most common’ symptoms they all experienced (Getty Stock Images)
The most common symptom of bladder ca.n.cer
The NHS outlines that the main symptom of bladder ca.nc.er is blood in your urine – something which survivors have spoken out about to w.a.rn others to take such a symptom seriously should they experience it themselves too.
Back in 2018, the likes of Arthur Hamberger, M.D., saw some blood in his urine, describing the colour as ‘the slightest shade of pink you can imagine’.
The symptom itself only happened once but, as a doctor and three-time ca.nc.er survivor, he knew not to ignore it and soon contacted a urologist and underwent a CT urogram, which is a scan of the urinary tract to check for disease.
“It showed I had a fairly large tumour in my bladder and a mass in my pancreas,” Arthur, who was 73 at the time of his bladder cancer diagnosis, recalled to MD Anderson Cancer Center.
It’s a good thing that Arthur, who is now a six-time cancer survivor, didn’t ignore that early symptom of bladder cancer, as his doctor was able to remove his tumour while keeping his bladder intact. Additionally, he also had surgery to remove the pancreatic ca.nc.er.
Bladder cancer survivors have opened up about the ‘red flag’ warning (Kinga Krzeminska / Getty Images)
‘It was just a little blood’
“If it were not for that little bit of blood in my urine, they would have never found the tumour in my pancreas,” he explained.
Likewise, Margo Wickersham also noticed blood in her urine but, for her, it happened one morning, then the next, and then never again.
“It was just a little blood, and it was pink, not red,” she shared. “But I was a 57-year-old woman and post-menopausal, so there were not a lot of reasons to explain it.”
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