A grandmother who has beaten bladder cancer three times is backing a study designed to offer a less invasive way to detect the disease.<\/p>\n
Security guard Brenda Irving from Essington had a tumour removed on each of the three occasions, having her treatment at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital.<\/p>\n
Irving was one of about 4,600 people across England who joined the BC-Recon study into the effectiveness of a urine test to diagnose bladder cancer.<\/p>\n
This is instead of inserting a camera into the urethra and guiding it into the bladder in a flexi cystoscopy, which the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said could be “uncomfortable” and “result in complications”.<\/p>\n
University of Birmingham researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK, developed a urine test identifying the mutated DNA which comes from bladder cancer.<\/p>\n
If proven accurate enough, the new test might see a wider rollout so that some patients avoid a cystoscopy.<\/p>\n
Irving said that all she had to do was take a kit home, label it, and send the sample back in the post.<\/p>\n
“It was so easy and not invasive and it was a lot quicker than waiting in hospital. I’d definitely do it again if I was asked because it’s so quick,” the 60-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“If anyone is asked to do this I would tell them to do it. If that’s all you have to do then more people might come forward to get checked.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grandmother who has beaten bladder cancer three times is backing a study designed to offer a less…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}