Many people are not aware that smokeless tobacco has a more far ranging effect on the human body than those diseases mentioned above. It has been shown that smokeless tobacco can increase greatly the chances of developing bladder cancer. What is frightening is that so many people now using and those who will soon begin to use smokeless tobacco have no idea of the serious effects this substance can bring down upon unsuspecting users.

Over 10,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer in the UK each year and over 50,000 annually in the US. It accounts for 90% of cancers of the urinary tract (renal pelvis, ureters, bladder and urethra) and occurs mostly in those over 50 and about twice as many men as women gets this disease.

Cancer is a life-threatening disease, wherever it originates, it has the same characteristic features of spread and invasion to other organs and lethality. There are four stages in the cancer of any type, such as stage I, stage II, stage III, and stage IV. The treatment type varies in each stage, and when the origin and spread of the disease when formed in the bladder, it is called bladder cancer. The main symptoms of bladder cancer are the patient feels pain on urination, some patients may get bleeding too, this condition is called hematuria medically, and the other symptom is frequent urgency to urinate. Polyuria is the another symptom (poly- means many, -uria means urination), in which the patient goes to urinate abnormally more number of times.

The bladder is a hollow muscular organ located in the pelvis inside the body and is responsible for holding urine. Bladder Cancer is a malignant growth within the urinary bladder. Cancer of the bladder results in the growth of abnormal cells in the bladder, which multiply beyond control.

Although there is more than one form of bladder cancer, that which we normally think of when we hear or read this term is transitional cell carcinomas. These are cancers that form in the cells that comprise the inner lining of the bladder.

Like most cancers, bladder cancer stages are divided upon 4 periods. Each stage reflects the spread of the malignant tumor within the tissues or systems of the body.