Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Have you noticed blood in your urine? The Qatari Ministry of Health stated, through its official account on the Instagram website, that this is one of the many symptoms of bladder cancer.
And the Qatari Ministry of Health revealed other symptoms that may be the cause of your bladder cancer.. What are the most prominent ones?
- Feeling the urgent need to empty the bladder of urine
- Feeling pain when emptying the bladder of urine
- Low back pain, especially on one side of the body
- Loss of appetite
- Unexplained decrease in body weight
- swollen feet
- Feeling pain in the bones
There are different types of urinary tract cancers, which may have similar symptoms. So, the Qatari Ministry of Health explained, via Instagram, the difference between each of them.
Urinary tract cancers include:
testicular cancer
- A lump or tumor in the testicle
- Enlarged kidney size
- Feeling of abnormal heaviness in the scrotum
- Feeling pain in the testicle or in the testicular scrotum
- Feeling pain in the area between the thighs or lower abdomen
Prostate cancer
- Difficulty urinating
- Slow and interrupted urine flow
- Urinating more frequently than normal
- Feeling that the bladder has not emptied completely, and urine dripping following urinating
- Urinary incontinence
Kidney cancer
- Presence of blood in the urine
- Low back pain just below the ribs
- Feeling of general tiredness
- body weight loss
- heat intermittently
