Long-term cancer screening 'recommended for spinal injury patients'RSS Feed

People with spinal cord injuries should be undergo long-term tests for bladder cancer, scientists have suggested.

A study undertaken by the urology department at the University of California, Irvine, found that of 1,319 patients seen, 32 had bladder cancer. The results were reported by URO Today.

However, it was discovered that more than half of these spinal injury cases were not fitted with an indwelling catheter - a suggested risk factor.

"The neurogenic bladder, not the indwelling catheter, may be the risk factor for bladder cancer," the team stated, adding that urologists should therefore screen all spinal cord injury patients for the disease and not just those using such equipment.

News of the findings follows recent developments in the field, which saw Neuralstem announce it was to conduct tests on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

The US Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for the research - designed to investigate ways to slow the illness down - last week.

Serious Law, leading spinal cord injury solicitors

Hip issues 'could lead to spinal injury'

30 September 2009

Problems with hips can have effects on other parts of the body and could even contribute to a spinal injury, it has been suggested.Speaking to online resource Lansingstatejournal, Jermaine Alexander, personal...

Read More...

Brain implants could help those with spinal cord injury

30 September 2009

Microelectrodes implanted in the brain could be used to help those paralysed by a spinal cord injury, studies have suggested.Scientists from the University of Michigan have created brain implants that...

Read More...

New spinal injury organisation formed

28 September 2009

A new spinal injury organisation - the Life Rolls On Foundation - has been formed.The body, which has been created as a result of a merger between the Life Rolls On Foundation and Christopher & Dana...

Read More...