Bladder cancer
What symptoms are shown in the early stages?
29.08.2025 – 4:32 p.m.Lesedauer: 2 min.
In the early stages, the chances of healing in bladder cancer are often good. Read which symptoms can be the first signs.
In bladder cancer (urinary bladder carcinoma), over 31,000 people fall ill annually, men about three times more often than women. Particularly tricky: In the early stage, bladder cancer often causes no or more general, non -specific symptoms. It is all the more important to recognize possible warning signals and take it seriously.
Blood in the urine is often one of the first signs of bladder cancer. The technical term for this is hematuria. The urine can then color pink to red-brownish. The blood does not have to show itself with every urination in the urine: sometimes the symptom disappears for a while and occasionally appears again.
If symptoms occur, blood in urine is often the only sign of bladder cancer in early stages. Pain or other complaints do not necessarily have to occur at this point.
In addition to blood in the urine, bladder cancer can also occur too frequent urge to urinate, but in which those affected can only leave a little water.
Blood cancer can show blood in the urine and other urinary tract complaints. However, these are not a safe sign of bladder cancer. In most cases, there are other, often harmless causes behind it, such as bladder infection, bladder or kidney stones or a disease of the prostate in men. In women, blood can also be added to the urine during the menstrual period.
In women, blood in the urine is therefore often not taken as seriously as in men, which means that precise medical clarification can be delayed. According to studies, this applies especially to women who are already being treated for recurring bladder infections. As a result, bladder cancer in women at the time of the diagnosis has often been advanced, so that diseases are more unfavorable for them overall.
If you notice blood in the urine and/or other urinary tract complaints, you should have it clarified as a precaution. This applies in particular if the symptoms exist for a long time, pain, the “feeling of having a bladder inflammation” occurs again and again or the blood in the urine in women after menopause occurs. A first point of contact can be general practitioner practice. If bladder cancer is discovered early, it can usually be treated well. In most cases, however, the symptoms are based on other causes, and the suspicion of bladder cancer can be quickly cleared up.
