I have been on remission for about 10 years after having had Gleeson 8. Treatment was radio and hormone therapy. But I now have bladder cancer. At first I blamed the bladder cancer on the radiotherapy, but a urologist in the family, said it was probably caused by passive smoking. (I have never smoked.) What do others think?
Unfortunately, if you've already had one cancer, then you're more likely to have another. I know someone who's had 3!
It's largely due to.immunity, which is popularly seen as affecting resistance to infection. It is, but more generally affects resistance to anything that's not recognised as "normal" e.g cancer cells..
I suppose passive smoking could affect your immune system and/or introduce some other effect on your bladder indirectly, but it's hard to imagine any direct effect.
Bladder cancer is treatable, whatever caused it is now possibly irrelevant.
If you've now given up passive smoking that's good. If you haven't. then you may have to think about what you can do to avoid other further consequences.
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