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Bladder cancer awareness month 2024
Bladder is a hollow organ in body that stores urine. Both kidneys drains it’s urine via hollow pipes called ureter into the bladder. The function of bladder in body is to stores urine and evacuate it at regular time interval by urination. May month is observed worldwide as the bladder cancer awareness month. In this Continue reading
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Understanding about kidney cancer
Kidney cancer is malignant cancer in the kidney cells. As March month is kidney cancer awareness month and being a dedicated doctor for promoting kidney health, here are few key factors regarding kidney cancer. What is kidney cancer ? As in other body cancers, kidney cancer is the malignant conversion of the kidney cells leading Continue reading
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Bladder cancer awareness month 2022
‘ Blood in urine is ominous sign.’ Bladder cancer is 10th most commonly diagnosed cancer. Nearly 570,000 cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed annually worldwide. Majority of these patients present with blood in urine at the initial presentation. Smokers have higher risk of being diagnosed with bladder cancer than non- smokers. Gross, Painless passage of Continue reading
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Prostate cancer – Part I
What is prostate ? Prostate is a lemon sized reproductive gland, found only in men, below the bladder. Its function is to produce fluid which helps providing nourishment to sperms in semen. Urinary passage goes through prostate, before reaching the penis. What all diseases can occur in prostate ? BPH (BPH (Enlarged prostate) Symptoms), Prostatitis (Infection Continue reading
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Know about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones/calculi
Kidney stones or otherwise called renal calculi or nephrolithiasis are deposits of combination of various minerals inside the kidney. The constituents of these stones are normally excreted into the urine. Excess concentration of these minerals in the urine leads its crystallization and further stone formation. Various reasons of stone formation include less water intake, dietary Continue reading
Dr Varinder Attri - Urologist, Andrologist and Laparoscopic surgeon 