Bladder cancer cause?

I’ve never smoked,I’ve never even tried it.I saw a programme showing the lungs of a heavy smoker when I was about 12 and that put me off for life.My cancer was caused by repeated infections and irritation from chronic bladder disease for over 30 years.Love Jane

Hi Jane.  Thanks. Yes, people should be shown lungs from smokers, liver from alcoholism and all the damage that we do to our body doing silly things... we should teach more self respect. "My body is a temple ". I know,  it's not so easy... 

We know there are contributing factors such as smoking, but over the years on here, we have seen many people with no obvious cause. My oncologist told me smokers are more likely to get bladder cancer than lung cancer. I smoked since I was 13, so my own fault. Best wishes.

Same here... my own fault. My father used to say "God (for those who believe,  my note) forgives and forgets. Humans forgive but  don't forget. Nature doesn't forgive and doesn't forget ". Bloody nature. Got a long memory!

My husband never smoked [though his father did and he lived at home till 30]. But he has had masses of meds since age 7 for difficult to control epilepsy. A few years ago after hearing on Gardeners' Question Time how good pee is for plants, diluted 1;4 with tapwater, I started feeding tomatoes in big pots this way. They grew distorted leaves so I concluded the combined waste products of the epilepsy drugs were causing DNA damage to the plants. I commented on this to a doctor who agreed it could well be that as these toxic wastes are stored in the bladder, they could have started the cancer in the lining. So anyone who has had especially multiple meds for any reason could be vulnerable. The required toxicology tests are only done on single meds not on the combined, or 'cocktail' effects. Incidentally my no-meds pee does not have any damaging effects on plants.

Denby

Wow. Really interesting ... very good luck to your husband!

Thank you. He's doing well now, down to 6 monthly checks after several into-bladder Mitomycin treatments.

To my mind it just shows how ignorantly we meddle with biology, including dousing crops in cocktails of pesticides and weed-killers etc and animals in antibiotics and indeed pesticides like tick-killers. In more recent years we have switched to as much organic as we can afford and get. I am sure this helps health and feel furious that the government keeps poor people so poor they haven't a hope of eating in the slightest healthily. The NHS is paying the price!

Regards, Denby

Yes. I agree. Health is the most important thing we have. It should be looked after better.... 

It can take many years for any insult to the body, such as smoking, to show up. Giving up a toxin, or changing lifestyle habits can repair some damage, some effects will only appear later on. On the other hand, age is the biggest factor in cancer developing anyway.

Both my brother & I have had bladder cancer, with no known cause. If it was some toxin we were both exposed to, that must have been around 40 years before the cancer started. Otherwise perhaps we have some genetic predisposition to be vulnerable to toxins. 

My brother and I have also both been diagnosed with bladder cancer - at the same time too. Interesting to hear the same for you