Bladder Control Problems Help

A bladder cancer diagnosis is devastating. You may be feeling powerless – not knowing what the future holds. You owe it to yourself, however, and those who love you and stand to lose you, to be informed about your options for beating it.

1. Your bladder cancer diagnosis has been made through pathology tests. These reveal whether you have cancer and what kind. It is worth asking whether the hospital sent your report and slides to another hospital for a second opinion. Many patients have been treated inappropriately because the wrong kind of cancer was diagnosed. Some hospitals have a standard policy to get a second opinion, but you might want to ask whether they did.

2. Once diagnosed, an oncologist will want to discuss treatment with you. Although the oncologist likely won’t tell you so, you have treatment choices beyond toxic chemotherapy, drugs, radiation and surgery. You might want to ask your oncologist if s/he has a financial interest in any of the treatments being recommended. It is a multi-billion dollar industry and some oncologists get financial benefits from drug makers or research interests.

3. It is also worth asking your oncologist how many people s/he has treated with the exact same cancer, what treatments were used and whether those people are still alive – this will give you some idea of the doctor’s experience with your cancer and the treatments being recommended.

4. Some patients do not die from their cancer, but die from the treatment – you might want to ask your doctor how toxic the therapy is and what side effects people experience. You can ask for survival information from the medical and scientific literature. Your oncologist should be able to support any survival claim they make with data or published studies they can tell you about. Be cautious if they cannot support their claims of a potential cure either with medical studies or with examples of other patients they have treated.

5. To a conventional doctor, cancer is an enemy. It is is seen as a local disease, and by cutting out the tumor, irradiating it or flooding the body with toxic drugs, the oncologist hopes to destroy the tumor and return you to health. Unfortunately, often the cancer remains and metastasizes (spreads) or re-occurs. To natural physicians, however, cancer involves the whole body, is a symptom of underlying illness and can be treated with gentle and non-toxic methods. Many people survive a cancer diagnosis this way.

Cancer patients and their loved ones need to know all of their treatment options. Thousands of people have beaten cancer using natural and non-toxic treatments. Your doctor will likely not know about these treatments or not be interested in them because medical schools don’t teach natural treatments, and sadly, doctors receive a lot of negative information about alternative treatments from the pharmaceutical industry and other bodies with an interest in conventional treatments.

There is plenty of information available on the Internet from survivors who want to share their stories, and from alternative health practitioners who have successfully treated cancer over and over again. Cancer survivor, Karon Beattie, on a quest to help others survive cancer, has compiled a review of over 350 treatments that enabled people to beat all forms of cancer, as well as information on where to get treatment and support. Her book, Natural Cancer Treatments That Work includes first-hand accounts of 36 people who specifically beat bladder cancer and how they did it.